Ashes of Immortality: Widow-Burning in India - Catherine Weinberger-Thomas - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226885698 - February 15, 2000
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Ashes of Immortality: Widow-Burning in India 2nd edition

Catherine Weinberger-Thomas

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Ashes of Immortality: Widow-Burning in India 2nd edition

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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