000			01443nam a2200121Ia 4500
999			_c148834 _d148834
020			_a9780226885698
040			_cCUS
082			_a129 _bWEI/A
100			_aWeinberger-Thomas, Catherine
245		0	_aAshes of immortality: widow-burning in India/ _cCatherine Weinberger-Thomas
260			_aNew Delhi: _bOxford University Press, _c2000.
300			_axii, 322 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
505			_aFunereal 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.
650			_aHinduism--Social aspects
650			_aWidow suicide
650			_aWives--Crimes against
650			_aWidowhood
942			_cWB16