Sati, the blessing and the curse: the burning of wives in India
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 -- C...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY [u.a.]
Oxford University Press
1994
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| In: | Year: 1994 |
| Reviews: | Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India. John Stratton Hawley (1996) (Harman, William)
[Rezension von: Hawley, John S., Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India] (1995) (Beck, Martha N.) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India
/ Sati
B Sati / Widow suicide by fire |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Sati B Religion |
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Literaturverz. S. 195 - 202 |
| ISBN: | 0195077717 |