Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in IndiaJohn Stratton Hawley Oxford University Press, 1994 - 214 pages Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband's funeral pyre and thus became sati. Before ascending the pyre, she was expected to deliver both blessings and curses: blessings to guard her family and clan for many generations, and curses to prevent anyone from thwarting her desire to die. Sati also means blessing and curse in a broader sense. To those who revere it, sati symbolizes ultimate loyalty and self-sacrifice. It often figures near the core of a Hindu identity that feels embattled in a modern world. Yet to those who deplore it, sati is a curse, a violation of every woman's womanhood. It is murder mystified, and as such, the symbol of precisely what Hinduism should not be.In this volume a group of leading scholars consider the many meanings of sati: in India and the West; in literature, art, and opera; in religion, psychology, economics, and politics. With contributors who are both Indian and American, this is a genuinely binational, postcolonial discussion. Contributors include Karen Brown, Paul Courtright, Vidya Dehejia, Ainslie Embree, Dorothy Figueira, Lindsey Harlan, John Hawley, Robin Lewis, Ashis Nandy, and Veena Talwar Oldenburg. |
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... funeral pyre for her hus- band and herself . Joyfully she sat on the funeral pyre and took her husband's dead body in her lap . The herdsmen prayed to her , telling her that in the jungle there was no water for their herds . She gave ...
... funeral pyre for her hus- band and herself . Joyfully she sat on the funeral pyre and took her husband's dead body in her lap . The herdsmen prayed to her , telling her that in the jungle there was no water for their herds . She gave ...
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... funeral oblations . After A.D. 700 , sati began to be extolled . It was suggested that a wife could purify her husband from the deadliest of sins if she burned herself on his funeral pyre ; her reward would be to dwell happily with him ...
... funeral oblations . After A.D. 700 , sati began to be extolled . It was suggested that a wife could purify her husband from the deadliest of sins if she burned herself on his funeral pyre ; her reward would be to dwell happily with him ...
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... funeral pyre and finally consume both hus- band and wife . But this does not happen until , as the devotional images of Roop Kanwar show , she mounts the funeral pyre and takes the body of her husband into her lap , in a breastfeeding ...
... funeral pyre and finally consume both hus- band and wife . But this does not happen until , as the devotional images of Roop Kanwar show , she mounts the funeral pyre and takes the body of her husband into her lap , in a breastfeeding ...
Table des matières
Introduction | 3 |
The Iconographies of Sati | 27 |
Sati in European Culture | 55 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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