Ashes of Immortality
Widow-Burning in India

- Contents

Acknowledgments
Funereal Prelude
A Burning in Bali
A Question of Words
Immortality: Time Reckoned
The Truth about Women
Speech as Instrument
Sexual Colorings
Living Satis
Blue as Blood
Trial by Fire
Fire and the Fault of Karma
Handprint, Dagger, and Lemon
Mutilation and Voluntary Death
Rhetoric of Protest Suicide
Dizzying Heights of Violence
The Trammels of Resentment
A Rite of Exorcism
The Offering of the Self
The Fruits of One’s Acts
The Corporality of the Dead
Death in the Telling
Rite and Belief
A Sati on the Shore of the Ganges (Stavorinus)
A Sati in Surat (Durlabh Ram)
The Dream as Proof
The Transmission of the Deadly Vow
Love in the Extreme
Under the Spell of Sacrifice
The Goddess’s Body
Sati Divine, Earthly Satis
Cult and Apotheosis
Shekhavati, an Endangered Region
Belief and Mystification
True and False Traditions
Cross-Examination of a District
The Rite, the Law, and the Custom
Ritual and How to Use It
A Sati in Poona
Shared Passions
Menstruation and the Final Oblation
The Seasonal Fault
A Foreword in Retrospect
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Asian Studies: South Asia
History: Asian History
Religion: Comparative Studies and History of Religion | South and East Asian Religions
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