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.

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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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 329
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 25 Feb 2000
ISBN 10: 0226885690
ISBN 13: 9780226885698

Ashes of Immortality: Widow-burning in India

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