Sati, the blessing and the curse: the burning of wives in India
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1994
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Beschreibung:"A project of the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University"--P. [v]. - 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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-202) and index
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
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 214 p.)
ISBN:0195360222
1280442603
1423737032
9780195360226
9781280442605
9781423737032

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