Research Catalog

Title

Burning women : a global history of widow sacrifice from ancient times to the present / Joerg Fisch ; translated from the German by Rekha Kamath Rajan.

Author

Fisch, Jörg

Publication

London ; New York : Seagull, 2006.

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Details

Description

x, 610 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.

Summary

'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.

Subject

• Sati
• Widow suicide > History
• Widow suicide > India > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "This book was first published in German as Todliche Rituale: Die Indische Witwenver Brennung [i.e. Witwenverbrennung] und andere Formen der Totenfolge"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [518]-580) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. I. Following into death outside India -- 1. Egypt and the ancient Near East -- 2. Europe -- 3. America -- 4. Africa -- 5. Oceania -- 6. China -- 7. Japan -- 8. Central Asia -- 9. Southeast Asia -- 10. The Indian influence in Southeast Asia : Java and Bali -- pt. II. Widow burning in India -- 11. The history of widow burning -- 12. Anatomy of a custom -- 13. Background and origins -- 14. The struggle against widow burning : end without an end.

ISBN

• 1905422024 (hbk.)
• 1905422032 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 61703132
• SCSB-12829842

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library