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Ashes of immortality: widow-burning in India/ Catherine Weinberger-Thomas

By: Weinberger-Thomas, CatherineMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000Description: xii, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780226885698Subject(s): Hinduism--Social aspects | Widow suicide | Wives--Crimes against | WidowhoodDDC classification: 129

Contents:

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.

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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.

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