Keyword: Women
Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India
Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989.
A Gentoo Burning Herself (1783)
from: The Geographical Magazine, London, Harrison & Co., 1783
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Death and Demonization of a Bodhisattva: Guanyin's Reformulation within Chinese Religion
in: Journal of the American Academy of Religion, v. 84 (2016), issue 3: pp.690-726.
Berenice offers her hair to Venus [1662 - 1663]
Palazzo Reale, Turin
Sati Memorials and Cenotaphs of Madhya Pradesh — A Survey
in: Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, v. 62 (2001), issue --: pp.1013–19.
La figliuola di Iefte all'altare per esser sacrificata (18th Century)
Convento dei Canonici Lateranensi - Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Hindu Infanticide: An Account of the Measures Adopted for Suppressing the Practice of the Systematic Murder by Their Parents of Female Infants; with Incidental Remarks on Other Customs Peculiar to the Natives of India
London: Johnson, 1811.
Satī, from a Sūz u Gudāz manuscript. The union of the couple on the pyre (1657)
from: Sūz u Gudāz ms, Iran, Walters Manuscript W. 649, fol. 19b (Burning and Melting)
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
the young Hindu woman accompanies her bridegroom's coffin to the funeral pyre and decides to commit sati (1657)
from: Walters manuscript W.649 (Burning and Melting)
The Walters Art Museum
Sati: A Nineteenth Century Tale of Women, Violence and Protest
in: At the Edge of Psychology: Essays in Politics and Culture, pp.
Delhi: -, 1980.
Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1602 - 1607]
from: Salsmann, Wilhelm. P. Ovid Nasonis XV Metamorphoseon librorvm figurae elegantissime a Cr[i]spiano Passaeo laminis aeneis incisae: quibus subiuncta sunt epigrammata latine ac germanice conscripta, fabularum omnium summam breviter ac erudite comprehendentia, Cologne, Joannem Jansonium, 1607
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
An Eighteenth-Century Account of Sati: John Zephaniah Holwell's ‘Religious Tenets of the Gentoos’ and ‘Voluntary Sacrifice’ (1767)
in: South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, v. 40 (2017), issue 1: pp.24-39.
Tobiolus Makes a Propitiatory Sacrifice (1543)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Il sacrificio di Ifigenia [1632 - 1633]
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
Levitici, Cap. XII, v. 6-s, Purperae Sacrificium (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCLXVII
Numer., Cap. V, v. 17, 26-28 (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCXCIII
Manner in which the Women in India Burn (1728)
from: Picart, B. Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres, tome II, Amsterdam, 1728
London, Wellcome Collection