Ashes of immortality : widow-burning in India / Catherine Weinberger-Thomas ; translated by Jeffrey Mehlman and David Gordon White
- Bib ID:
- 1768384
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Weinberger-Thomas, Catherine
- Uniform Title:
- Cendres d'immortalite. English
- Description:
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999
- xii, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0226885682 (alkaline paper) (cased) (cloth)
- 0226885690 (alkaline paper) (paper) (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Funereal Prelude. A Burning in Bali. A Question of Words. Immortality: Time Reckoned. The Truth about Women. Speech as Instrument. Sexual Colorings. Living Satis. Blue as Blood. Trial by Fire. Fire and the Fault of Karma
- Handprint, Dagger, and Lemon. Mutilation and Voluntary Death. The Rhetoric of Protest Suicide. Dizzying Heights of Vengeance. The Trammels of Resentment. A Rite of Exorcism. The Offering of the Self. The Fruits of One's Acts. The Corporality of the Dead
- Death in the Telling. Rite and Belief. A Sati on the Shore of the Ganges (Stavorinus). A Sati in Surat (Durlabh Ram). The Dream as Proof. The Transmission of the Deadly Vow. Love in the Extreme
- Under the Spell of Sacrifice. The Goddess's Body. Sati Divine, Earthly Satis. Cult and Apotheosis
- Shekhavati, an Endangered Region. Belief and Mystification. True and False Traditions. Cross-Examination of a District
- The Rite, the Law, and the Custom. Ritual and How to Use It. A Sati in Poona.
- Shared Passions. Menstruation and the Final Oblation. The Seasonal Fault
- A Foreword in Retrospect.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-309) and index.
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- Publication date:
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