Pious Flames
Subtitle: European Encounters with Sati (1500-1830)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 21, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780195678185
Subjects: Anthropology; Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; History; History - General History; History: World; India; Asia - India & South Asia; History / India; Europe; Orientalism; Public opinion; Sati
Description: "Exploring the interconnections between the iconic images and the observers' own preconceptions, Pious Flames traces the changing nature of western responses to sati over three and a half centuries. It situates such responses in the context of the ongoing domestic debates about women, religion, suicide, insanity, and the treatment of the human body."--Jacket.