Sati the blessing and the curse : the burning of wives in India The Iconographies of sati P.B. Courtright Comment : A Broader landscape V. Dehejia Die Flambierte Frau : Sati in European culture D.M. Figueira Comment : Sati and the nineteenth century British self R.J. Lewis Perfection and devotion : Sati tradition in Rajasthan L. Harlan Comment : Good mothers and bad mothers in the rituals of sati K. McCarthy Brown The Roop Kanwar case : Feminist responses V.T. Oldenburg Sati as profit versus sati as a spectacle : The public debate on Roop Kanwars death A. Nandy Comment : Widows as cultural symbols A.T. Embree Comment : The continuing invention of the sati tradition V.T. Oldenburg Afterword : The mysteries and communities of sati J.S. Hawley