ASSIGNMENT 02 SRI LANKA ANTHROPOLOGY De Silva S.S.S HS /2018/17054 2000 Level 2ndSemester SOC22523E Department ofSociology University of Ruhuna
2 ASSIGNMENT 02 Candidates are required toconducta smallethnographyand write a research article.
3 Abstract The caste system is descended from the past to the present. My research topic was to explain the caste system differences in SriLanka. Itwas first to focus on the factors that contributed to the establishment of a caste system in SriLanka. Ibegan to focus on how the caste system evolved from its inception. One of the main objectives of this research was to look at the current changes in the caste system in Sri Lanka. Let us focus on the factors that contributed to this change in the caste system in SriLanka. Thisresearch paper contains information on how it is important for us to study the differences in the caste system in Sri Lanka.
4 Introduction A society is a macro unit surrounded by complex public relation and institutional patterns. That is a whole combination of certain social processes and the corporation that is built up as a result of them. A certain alignment can be seen from the top to the bottom inlayers.Castecan be termed as one of the strata that determine the level of belonging or social status of an individual. Caste players a key role in the uniqueness of south Asian societies .caste a phenomenon not seen in western societies ,is also deeply entrenched in south Asian societies in south Asian society the social status of the individual has had a profound effect on shaping the overall social relation of caste societies which determine social value .so the social pattern of south Asian is very different from the social pattern of western society or any other Asian region therefore ,interpersonalrelationships and personal value are unique to these societies. According to K.TSilva Cuestais a purely social construct caste is not a universal phenomenon. It is a social structure associated with south Asian society Anthropologist A.L. Krober who has been conducting anthropological research on caste a phenomenon unique to south Asian society points out that caste is an institution whose toughness, aggression, birthright, and does not know the possibility of human mobility. The anthropologist Huttenstater that caste represents the following characteristics through concepts. ▪Caste is two intergeneration. ▪There are some limitations between members belonging to different castes. ▪Caste is a hierarchical group of condition. ▪Caste is somethingthat is associated with a traditional job. ▪A man’s caste status is ultimately determined by his birth or he must have been expelled by his caste for some violation of custom. ▪The system as a whole is a prider centric system. •In the research paper “what shouldbemean by cast “by anthropologist E.R Leach, castehas three distinguishing features. ▪Caste into a system of division of labor, ▪Caste can be distinguished from other casted by the way in which those members have become closely associated with economic,Political and ritual networks. ▪That there is a structural organization within the caste system and that It is a corporation unique to them.
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