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Life-crisis cycles in South India and Sri Lanka; three villages; caste,agriculture, and the local economy; inter-caste presentations;relationship terminologies; marriage rules and behaviour; puberty ritesin the three villages; the local wedding ceremony; rituals of birth andinfancy; death ritual; other ethnographic examples; modes ofinterpretation; an analysis of the ritual cycle in Terku Vandanam; thesocial identities of ritual participants; the overall pattern; divinemarriage.