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Ashes of Immortality: Widow-Burning in India 2nd edition
Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
Ashes of Immortality: Widow-Burning in India 2nd edition
Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
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.
328 pages, 47 halftones
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 15, 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9780226885698 |
| Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
| Pages | 329 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 510 g |
| Translator | Mehlman, Jeffrey |
| Translator | White, David Gordon |
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