Sati, the blessing and the curse : the burning of wives in India
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
xii, 214 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
9780195077711, 9780195077742, 0195077717, 0195077741
26361736
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
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