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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.

Ashes of Immortality WidowBurning in India

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    A Paperback / softback by Catherine Weinberger-Thomas, Jeffrey Mehlman, David Gordon White

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/02/2000
      ISBN13: 9780226885698, 978-0226885698
      ISBN10: 0226885690
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      Anthropology History of religion

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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