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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Ashes of Immortality
• Subtitle: Widow-Burning in India
• Author: Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 329
• EAN: 9780226885698
• ISBN: 0226885690
• ID: 04550378
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 334 g
• Dimensions: 251 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. February 2000

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