"Following into death" is an ancient and widespread custom which
entails one or more people - voluntarily or involuntarily -
following a dead man or woman into death. The event is ritualized
as a public act. The decisive feature is not the manner of dying
but the intent, which is to accompany a dead person into the
hereafter. "Burning Women" explores how this custom - of which the
Indian Hindu custom of sati, or widow burning, is the best known
example - has existed in various forms in most parts of the world.
The practice of widow-burning combines strong spiritual beliefs
in the hereafter with the more secular power struggles of this
world, both between the sexes and social groups. Widow burning in
India has long been passionately debated, but its practice in other
parts of the world has been neglected. "Burning Women" is the first
history of the anthropological, religious, social and political
contexts of widow-burning across the world.
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