Widow-burning in India, also known as sati, has been for centuries a widely known and hotly debated phenomenon. But its more universal anthropological, religious, social, and political contexts have been neglected. In this book, sati is studied for the first time in a global context. It is considered as one among many manifestations of following into death, which entails the death of one of more persons within a ritualized and public act. The decisive feature is ...
