{"product_id":"ashes-of-immortality-1","title":"Ashes of Immortality","description":"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. Based on 15 years of fieldwork in northern India, where the state-banned practice of satis re-emerged in the 1970s, as well as textual analysis, Catherine 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.","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54218536223064,"sku":"9780226885681","price":92.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ashes-of-immortality-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}