Sati, the blessing and the curse : the burning of wives in India / edited by John Stratton Hawley.
Contributor(s): Hawley, John Stratton
| Columbia University. Southern Asian Institute
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TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994Description: xii, 214 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0195077741 (pbk. : acidfree paper); 0195077717 (cloth : acid-free paper)Subject(s): SatiDDC classification: 392 LOC classification: GT3370 | .S27 1994Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202) and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | 1 West | GT3370 .S27 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182800954410 |
"A project of the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University"--P. [v].
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202) and index.
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.