Ashes of Immortality: Widow-Burning in India - Catherine Weinberger-Thomas - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226885681 - February 15, 2000
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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.

329 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released February 15, 2000
ISBN13 9780226885681
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 329
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   567 g
Language English  
Translator Mehlman, Jeffrey
Translator White, David Gordon

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