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Author :Catherine Weinberger-Thomas Publisher :University of Chicago Press ISBN 13 :9780226885681 Total Pages :344 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (856 download)
Book Synopsis Ashes of Immortality by : Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
Download or read book Ashes of Immortality written by Catherine Weinberger-Thomas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At last, she arrives at the fatal end of the plank . . . and, with her hands crossed over her chest, falls straight downward, suspended for a moment in the air before being devoured by the burning pit that awaits her. . . ." This grisly 1829 account by Pierre Dubois demonstrates the usual European response to the Hindu custom of satis sacrificing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands—horror and revulsion. Yet to those of the Hindu faith, not least the satis themselves, this act signals the sati's sacredness and spiritual power. Ashes of Immortality attempts to see the satis through Hindu eyes, providing an extensive experiential and psychoanalytic account of ritual self-sacrifice and self-mutilation in South Asia. Based on fifteen years of fieldwork in northern India, where the state-banned practice of sati reemerged in the 1970s, as well as extensive textual analysis, 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.
Download or read book Burning Women written by Jörg Fisch and published by Seagull Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Burning Women', written by Joerg Fisch, reveals how the ongoing practice of 'widow-burning' is not exclusively Indian but is a global phenomenon. The book also presents a complete history of the practice up to the present day.
Download or read book Suttee written by Edward John Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Catherine Weinberger-Thomas Publisher :University of Chicago Press ISBN 13 :9780226885681 Total Pages :122 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (856 download)
Book Synopsis Ashes of Immortality by : Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
Download or read book Ashes of Immortality written by Catherine Weinberger-Thomas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At last, she arrives at the fatal end of the plank . . . and, with her hands crossed over her chest, falls straight downward, suspended for a moment in the air before being devoured by the burning pit that awaits her. . . ." This grisly 1829 account by Pierre Dubois demonstrates the usual European response to the Hindu custom of satis sacrificing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands—horror and revulsion. Yet to those of the Hindu faith, not least the satis themselves, this act signals the sati's sacredness and spiritual power. Ashes of Immortality attempts to see the satis through Hindu eyes, providing an extensive experiential and psychoanalytic account of ritual self-sacrifice and self-mutilation in South Asia. Based on fifteen years of fieldwork in northern India, where the state-banned practice of sati reemerged in the 1970s, as well as extensive textual analysis, 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.
Book Synopsis Sati - Widow Burning in India by : Sakuntala Narasimhan
Download or read book Sati - Widow Burning in India written by Sakuntala Narasimhan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1992-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sati--the burning of a widow on her husband's funeral pyre--has for centuries been one of the few ways in which women of India could achieve renown, respect, and even deification. This eye-opening work exposes what this still persistent ritual (officially outlawed in 1829) reveals about this society and about the women who choose or are forced to become sati. 8-page insert.
Download or read book Burning Women written by P. Banerjee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widow burning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture, but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European forms of ritualized violence and European constructions of gender ideology. European accounts of women being burned in India uncannily commented on the burnings of women as witches and criminal wives in Europe. When Europeans narrated their accounts of sati, perhaps the most striking illustration of Hindu patriarchal violence, they did not specifically connect the act of widow burning to a corresponding European signifier: the gruesome ceremonial burnings of women as witches. In examining early modern representations of sati, the book focuses specifically on those strategies that enabled European travellers to protect their own identity as uniquely civilized amidst spectacular displays of 'Eastern barbarity'.
Book Synopsis Widow-burning by : Henry Jeffreys Bushby
Download or read book Widow-burning written by Henry Jeffreys Bushby and published by London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. This book was released on 1855 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Contentious Traditions by : Lata Mani
Download or read book Contentious Traditions written by Lata Mani and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contentious Traditions analyzes the debate on sati, or widow burning, in colonial India. Though the prohibition of widow burning in 1829 was heralded as a key step forward for women's emancipation in modern India, Lata Mani argues that the women who were burned were marginal to the debate and that the controversy was over definitions of Hindu tradition, the place of ritual in religious worship, the civilizing missions of colonialism and evangelism, and the proper role of the colonial state. Mani radically revises colonialist as well as nationalist historiography on the social reform of women's status in the colonial period and clarifies the complex and contradictory character of missionary writings on India. The history of widow burning is one of paradox. While the chief players in the debate argued over the religious basis of sati and the fine points of scriptural interpretation, the testimonials of women at the funeral pyres consistently addressed the material hardships and societal expectations attached to widowhood. And although historiography has traditionally emphasized the colonial horror of sati, a fascinated ambivalence toward the practice suffused official discussions. The debate normalized the violence of sati and supported the misconception that it was a voluntary act of wifely devotion. Mani brilliantly illustrates how situated feminism and discourse analysis compel a rewriting of history, thus destabilizing the ways we are accustomed to look at women and men, at "tradition," custom, and modernity.
Download or read book Immolating Women written by Jörg Fisch and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widow Burning In India, Also Known As Sati, Has Been For Centuries A Widely Known And Hotly Debated Phenomenon, Both Inside And Outside The Country. But Its More Universal Anthropological, Religious, Social And Political Contexts Have Been Neglected. In This Book, Sati Is Studied For The First Time In A Really Global Context. It Is Considered As One Among Many Manifestations Of Following Into Death Within A Ritualized And Public Act, Voluntarily Or Involuntarily. The Decisive Feature Is Thus Not The Manner Of Dying, But The Function And The Intent: That Is, To Accompany A Dead Person Into The Hereafter. The Custom Is Shown To Have Existed In Various Forms In Most Parts Of The World And To Have Combined Strong Beliefs In The Hereafter With Power Struggles In This World, Both Between The Sexes And Between Social Groups.
Book Synopsis Madame Blavatsky on Hindu widow-burning by : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Download or read book Madame Blavatsky on Hindu widow-burning written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Widow-burning. (Repr., Quarterly review, with additions). by : Henry Jeffreys Bushby
Download or read book Widow-burning. (Repr., Quarterly review, with additions). written by Henry Jeffreys Bushby and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Widow-burning by : Henry Jeffreys B 1820 Bushby
Download or read book Widow-burning written by Henry Jeffreys B 1820 Bushby and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Widow-Burning by : Henry Jeffreys Bushby
Download or read book Widow-Burning written by Henry Jeffreys Bushby and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Abstract of the Arguments regarding the Burning of Widows, considered as a religious rite by :
Download or read book Abstract of the Arguments regarding the Burning of Widows, considered as a religious rite written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Suttee. A Historical and Philosophical Enquiry Into the Hindu Rite of Widow-burning by : Edward Thompson
Download or read book Suttee. A Historical and Philosophical Enquiry Into the Hindu Rite of Widow-burning written by Edward Thompson and published by London G. Allen & Unwin [1928]. This book was released on 1928 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Widow-Burning written by Henry Jeffreys Bushby and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Widow-Burning: A Narrative The distinctive memorial of a Suttee. The feet of each victim are represented in relief, with the soles outwards, on the face of the mausoleum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Widow-Burning. (Repr., Quarterly Review, with Additions) by : Henry Jeffreys Bushby
Download or read book Widow-Burning. (Repr., Quarterly Review, with Additions) written by Henry Jeffreys Bushby and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
