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Very close relatives of the dead should not wear turbans and should go without food (except for fruit and coffee) from the time of death until the disposal of the corpse. They should neither touch nor drink milk, even in their coffee … Regardless of what their ages might be relative to the deceased, men and women of the same generation touch the head, whereas all those of junior generations, together with any Toreyas at another [kin’s] funeral, touch the feet. Immediately after doing so, men but not women touch their own foreheads.
- Source: Hockings, Paul. Mortuary ritual of the Badagas of southern India. Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 2001.
- Culture: Badaga
- Location: Asia