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

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Columbia University. Southern Asian Institute
Otros Autores: Hawley, John Stratton, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
Temas:
Sati.
Widow suicide.
Satī.
Veuves > Suicide.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Sati
Widow suicide
Witwenverbrennung
Weduwenverbranding.
Veuves > Inde.
Indien
Death customs
India
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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