A Sinhala-language title from Godage International Publishers, an established Colombo house that publishes across Sinhala and English. The text is in Sinhala throughout, so a reader will need to be comfortable in the language — the English words in the title are a gloss, not a sign of a bilingual edition.
The subject, as the title indicates, is folk psychology: the study of how ordinary people explain thought, feeling and behaviour, and the beliefs about mind and character carried in everyday speech, custom and tradition. Raththota Upananda writes here within that field. It is a slim volume rather than a reference work, the kind of short Sinhala monograph that Godage has long published on cultural and social subjects.
It will suit readers of Sinhala with an interest in traditional belief, folklore and the social sciences, and students working through local scholarship in their own language rather than in translation. Buyers abroad — members of the Sri Lankan diaspora keeping up a Sinhala reading habit, or university libraries building Sinhala-language holdings in anthropology and psychology — are the natural audience for a book of this kind.
- Author: Raththota Upananda
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 72
- ISBN: 9789553081889
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