Immolating women: a global history of widow burning from ancient times to the present, transl. from the German by Rekha Kamath Rajan

Fisch, Jorg

The custom is shown, in this hugely scholarly work, to have existed in various forms in most parts of the world and to have combined strong beliefs in the hereafter with power struggles in this world, both between the sexes and between social groups.

Publisher: Permanent Black

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