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Sati, the blessing and the curse : the burning of wives in India / edited by John Stratton Hawley.
- Title
- Sati, the blessing and the curse : the burning of wives in India / edited by John Stratton Hawley.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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- Description
- xii, 214 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Sati symbolizes ultimate loyalty and self-sacrifice. It often figures near the core of a Hindu identity that feels embattled in a modern world. Yet to those who deplore it, sati is a curse, a violation of every woman's womanhood.
- Alternative Title
- Burning of wives in India.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Note
- "A project of the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University"--P. [v].
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-202) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The iconographies of Sati / Paul B. Courtright -- Die flambierte frau : Sati in european culture / Dorothy M. Figueira -- Perfection and devotion : Sati tradition in Rajasthan / Lindsey Harlan -- The Roop Kanwar case / Veena Talwar Oldenburg -- Sati as profit versus sati as spectable : the public debate on Roop Kanwar's death / Ashis Nandy
- ISBN
- 0195077717 (cloth : acid-free paper) :
- 0195077741 (pbk. : acid-free paper) :
- LCCN
- ^^^92023468^
- OCLC
- 26361736
- SCSB-9975489
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library