| Description |
xii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
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Shared Passions. Menstruation and the Final Oblation. The Seasonal Fault -- A Foreword in Retrospect |
| Notes |
Originally published as: Cendres d'immortalite'.La cremation des veuves en Inde. Editions du Seuil, 1996 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-309) and index |
| Subject |
Widows -- India -- Legal statutes, laws, etc
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Widows -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- India.
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Widow suicide -- India.
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Sati -- India.
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Hinduism -- Social aspects -- India.
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| Author |
Mehlman, Jeffrey.
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White, David Gordon.
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| LC no. |
99037258 |
| ISBN |
0226885682 |
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0226885690 |
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