| Description |
xii, 214 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"A project of the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University"--P. [v]. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202) and index. |
| Contents |
The Iconographies of sati / P.B. Courtright -- Comment : A Broader landscape / V. Dehejia -- Die Flambierte Frau : Sati in European culture / D.M. Figueira -- Comment : Sati and the nineteenth-century British self / R.J. Lewis -- Perfection and devotion : Sati tradition in Rajasthan / L. Harlan -- Comment : Good mothers and bad mothers in the rituals of sati / K. McCarthy Brown -- The Roop Kanwar case : Feminist responses / V.T. Oldenburg -- Sati as profit versus sati as a spectacle : The public debate on Roop Kanwar's death / A. Nandy -- Comment : Widows as cultural symbols / A.T. Embree -- Comment : The continuing invention of the sati tradition / V.T. Oldenburg -- Afterword : The mysteries and communities of sati / J.S. Hawley. |
| Subject |
Sati.
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| Indexed Term |
Death customs |
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India |
| Added Author |
Hawley, John Stratton, 1941-
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Columbia University. Southern Asian Institute.
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| ISBN |
0195077717 (cloth : acid-free paper) : $39.95 |
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0195077741 (pbk. : acid-free paper) : $15.95 |
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