Ashes of Immortality : Widow-Burning in India
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0226885690
ISBN-13
9780226885698
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 15th, 2000
Print length
329 Pages
Weight
510 grams
Dimensions
2.30 x 1.50 x 0.20 cms
Product Classification:
History of religionHinduismWorship, rites & ceremoniesAnthropology
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This work attempts to see the satis - the Hindu custom of women sacrificing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands - through Hindu eyes, providing an experiential and psychoanalytic account of ritual self-sacrifice and self-mutilation in South Asia.
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