Ashes of immortality: widow-burning in India/
Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- xii, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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Hinduism--Social aspects Widow suicide Wives--Crimes against Widowhood