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In A Singhalese Village in Sri Lanka: Coping with Uncertainty, Victoria J. Baker is making a case for how the people of Suduwatura Ara, an agrarian society of homesteaders cope with the uncertainty surrounding their lives. In pursuit of this subject, Baker looks at both the macro and micro environment, not only of the people, but also the researcher. She includes a discussion of her fieldwork in 1984-1985 and her return in 1994-1995, how she had to learn the customs and build a house to live in because of the poverty. Poverty is the main thrust of her argument in the case study concerning this particular group of Sinhalese, though her main thrust is how they cope with the persistent uncertainty of losing their homes and livelihoods. 1 work cited. jvSinhal.rtf
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homesteaders cope with the uncertainty surrounding their lives. In pursuit of this subject, Baker looks at both the macro and micro environment, not only of the people, but also the
researcher. She includes a discussion of her fieldwork in 1984-1985 and her return in 1994-1995, how she had to learn the customs and build a house to live in because
of the poverty. Poverty is the main thrust of her argument in the case study concerning this particular group of Sinhalese, though her main thrust is how they cope with
the persistent uncertainty of losing their homes and livelihoods. In exploring the issue, she puts the village in perspective in its locations within
the Moneragala District in which it is situated, and as with all aspects of her study, filters this through the areas early history, her first field trip in 1984-1985, the
aftereffects of Sri Lankas Village Re-Awakening period in 1991 during the interim period between Bakers field trips, and then her followup return in 1994-1995. She explores how the villagers beliefs
in the supernatural and a number of deities and the Buddhist religion affect their everyday individual lives, their standard of living, particularly in terms of agriculture and daily subsistence, their
housing, health facilities, utilities, sanitation, housing, and education. She also focuses on other traditional areas of anthropological study including agriculture and other business ventures, kinship and family, childhood, marriage, methods
of healing, and the overall civic picture of Suduwatura Ara as a village in Sri Lanka and the Moneragala district. Central Ideas and
Conclusions Baker focuses a great deal on exploring conditions she describes as deplorable in Suduwatura Ara. These conditions include a number of general
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