| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 214 pages) : illustrations, map |
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OUP E-Books
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| 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 |
| Summary |
This is a collection of essays on the phenomenon of sati (or suttee), the burning of wives in India. The contributors, who include both American and Indian scholars, address basic questions about this controversial phenomenon and the moral issues it involves |
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Death customs |
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India |
| Notes |
"A project of the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University"--Page v |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Sati.
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Widow suicide.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
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Sati
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Widow suicide
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Sati
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Witwenverbrennung
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Weduwenverbranding.
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Satī.
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Veuves -- Inde.
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Indien
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hawley, John Stratton, 1941-
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Columbia University. Southern Asian Institute.
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| LC no. |
92023468 |
| ISBN |
1423737032 |
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9781423737032 |
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0195360222 |
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9780195360226 |
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9780195077742 |
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0195077741 |
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1280442603 |
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9781280442605 |
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9786610442607 |
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6610442606 |
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