Sati, the blessing and the curse [[electronic resource] ] : the burning of wives in India / / edited by John Stratton Hawley

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Disciplina: 392
• Soggetto topico: Sati; Widow suicide
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HawleyJohn Stratton <1941->
• Note generali: "A project of the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University"--P. [v].
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-202) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; LANGUAGE AND TRANSLITERATION; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; 1. The Iconographies of Sati; Comment: A Broader Landscape; 2. Die Flambierte Frau: Sati in European Culture; Comment: Sati and the Nineteenth-century British Self; 3. Perfection and Devotion: Sati Tradition in Rajasthan; Comment: Good Mothers and Bad Mothers in the Rituals of Sati; 4. The Roop Kanwar Case: Feminist Responses; 5. Sati as Profit Versus Sati as a Spectacle: The Public Debate on Roop Kanwar's Death; Comment: Widows as Cultural Symbols; Comment: The Continuing Invention of the Sati Tradition ; Afterword: The Mysteries and Communities of SatiSelect Glossary of Indic Terms; A; B; C; D; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; Y; Z; Bibliography; Notes on the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Titolo autorizzato: Sati, the blessing and the curse
• ISBN: 1-280-44260-3; 0-19-972930-1; 0-19-536022-2; 1-4237-3703-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450454803321
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