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Ashes of Immortality

Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
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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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Catherine Weinberger-Thomas EAN: 9780226885698 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-02-15 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Anthropology, History of religion, Hinduism, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals

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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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Catherine Weinberger-Thomas EAN: 9780226885698 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-02-15 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Anthropology, History of religion, Hinduism, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals

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