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Ashes of Immortality

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Book Ashes of Immortality Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
Libristo code: 04550378
Publishers The University of Chicago Press, February 2000
This work attempts to see the satis - the Hindu custom of women sacrificing themselves on the funera... Full description
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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.

About the book

Full name Ashes of Immortality
Author Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
Language English
Binding Book - Paperback
Date of issue 2000
Number of pages 329
EAN 9780226885698
ISBN 0226885690
Libristo code 04550378
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Weight 334
Dimensions 152 x 251 x 20

Categories

Society & Social Sciences > Society & culture: general > Social groups > Gender studies, gender groups > Gender studies: women & girls
Philosophy & Religion > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religion > Prayers & liturgical material > Worship, rites & ceremonies
Society & Social Sciences > Sociology & anthropology > Sociology > Sociology: death & dying
Society & Social Sciences > Sociology & anthropology > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology
Philosophy & Religion > Religion & beliefs > Religion: general > History of religion
Philosophy & Religion > Religion & beliefs > Hinduism
Place qualifiers > Asia > South Asia (Indian sub-continent)
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