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Sati, the blessing and the curse : the burning of wives in India

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
eBook, English, 1994
Oxford University Press, New York, 1994
1 online resource (xii, 214 pages) : illustrations, map
9781423737032, 9780195360226, 9780195077742, 9781280442605, 9786610442607, 1423737032, 0195360222, 0195077741, 1280442603, 6610442606
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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
"A project of the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University"--Page v
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011