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Rituals of Life: A Study of the People of Kalvarayan Hills
Mohan Doss
Published: 2011/03/01
Abstract
The author describes the rituals that the people of the Kalvarayan Hills in Southern India perform after the birth of a child, at childhood, at the age of puberty, on the occasion of marriage, and at death. He also seeks to show the extent to which these are changing as the people of that district are influenced by modern media and by increased contact with the wider Tamil society that inhabits the plains at the foot of the Hills.
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