Burning Women: A Global History of Widow-Sacrifice from Ancient Times to the Present
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781905422036 (1905422032)
Publish date: November 1st 2005
Publisher: Seagull Books
Pages no: 550
Edition language: English
My first introduction to Suttee was though a film version of Around the World in Eighty Days. It had Pierce Bronson in it. I was young so I didn’t really think much about until college where it was dealt with in a book I read for a sociology class. This book presents the practice of ...