Ashes of immortality : widow-burning in India

Author(s)

• Weinberger-Thomas, Catherine
• Mehlman, Jeffrey
• White, David Gordon

Bibliographic Information

Ashes of immortality : widow-burning in India

Catherine Weinberger-Thomas ; translated by Jeffrey Mehlman and David Gordon White

University of Chicago Press, 1999

• : cloth
• : paper

Other Title

Cendres d'immortalité : la crémation des veuves en Inde

Note

Originally published as Cendres d'immortalité : la crémation des veuves en Inde. Seuil, 1996

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-309) and index

Details

• NCID: BA46508721
• ISBN:
  • 0226885682
  • 0226885690
• LCCN: 99037258
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 322 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GT3370
  • DC21 : 393/.9
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Widow suicide -- India
  • LCSH : Sati -- India
  • LCSH : Widows -- Legal statutes, laws, etc. -- India
  • LCSH : Hinduism -- Social aspects -- India