bokomslag Ashes of Immortality
Filosofi & religion

Ashes of Immortality

Catherine Weinberger-Thomas

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  • 329 sidor
  • 2000
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.
  • Författare: Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780226885681
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 329
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2000-02-01
  • Översättare: David Gordon White Jeffrey Mehlman
  • Förlag: University of Chicago Press