TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weinberger-Thomas, Catherine
TI  - Ashes of immortality: widow-burning in India
SN  - 9780226885698
U1  - 129 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Hinduism--Social aspects
KW  - Widow suicide
KW  - Wives--Crimes against
KW  - Widowhood
N1  - 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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