Sati, the Blessing and the Curse The Burning of Wives in India

Name: Sati, the Blessing and the Curse The Burning of Wives in India
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ISBN: 9780195077742

ISBN-10: 0195077741

ISBN-13: 9780195077742

Edition: 1994

Authors: John Stratton Hawley

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Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband's funeral pyre and thus became sati. Before ascending the pyre, she was expected to deliver both blessings and curses: blessings to guard her family and clan for many generations, and curses to prevent anyone from thwarting her desire to die. Sati also means blessing and curse in a broader sense. To those who revere it, 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. It is murder mystified, and as such, the symbol of precisely…

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List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/8/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 9.25" wide x 6.14" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Language and Transliteration


Abbreviations


Introduction




The Iconographies of Sati



Comment: A Broader Landscape




Die Flambierte Frau: Sati in European Culture



Comment: Sati and the Nineteenth-century British Self




Perfection and Devotion: Sati Tradition in Rajasthan



Comment: Good Mothers and Bad Mothers in the Rituals of Sati




The Roop Kanwar Case: Feminist Responses




Sati as Profit Versus Sati as a Spectacle: The Public Debate on Roop Kanwar's Death



Comment: Widows as Cultural Symbols



Comment: The Continuing Invention of the Sati Tradition



Afterword: The Mysteries and Communities of Sati



Select Glossary of Indic Terms


Bibliography


Notes on the Contributors


Index