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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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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Pełny tytuł: Ashes of Immortality
• Podtytuł: Widow-Burning in India
• Autor: Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 329
• EAN: 9780226885698
• ISBN: 0226885690
• ID: 04550378
• Wydawca: The University of Chicago Press
• Waga: 334 g
• Wymiary: 251 × 152 × 20 mm
• Data wydania: 15. February 2000

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