Ashes of Immortality: Widow-Burning in India
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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. Based on 15 years of fieldwork in northern India, where the state-banned practice of satis re-emerged in the 1970s, as well as textual analysis, Catherine Weinberger-Thomas constructs a radically new interpretation of satis. She shows that their self-immolation transcends gender, caste and class, region and history, representing for the Hindus a path to immortality.
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David Gordon White is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of several books, including The Alchemical Body, Kiss of the Yogini, and Sinister Yogis, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
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- Contributor: Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
- Imprint: University of Chicago Press
- ISBN13: 9780226885698
- Number of Pages: 329
- Packaged Dimensions: 15x23x2mm
- Packaged Weight: 510
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Release Date: 2000-02-25
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: David Gordon White is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of several books, including The Alchemical Body, Kiss of the Yogini, and Sinister Yogis, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
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