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Ashes Of Immortality: Widow-Burning In India
Author: Weinberger-Thomas, Catherine
Paperback; 47 Halftones
328 pages
Published: February 2000
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226885690

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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