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In Honor of Fadime


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Éditeur : University of Chicago press Date & Lieu : 2008-01-01, Chicago / London
Préface : Pages : 312
Traduction : ISBN : 978-0-226-89686-1
Langue : AnglaisFormat : 140x215 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Ang. 4857Thème : Sociologie

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In Honor of Fadime

In Honor of Fadime

Unni Wikan

University of Chicago press

What drives a man to murder his child-for honor’s sake?

What makes a mother testify in favor of a man who has murdered their child-for honor’s sake?

You will come to understand, if I have managed to do what I endeavored: explain honor and honor killing. My motivating force was the murder of Fadime Sahindal in Uppsala, Sweden, on January 21, 2002. Fadime’s fate left me no peace. Of Kurdish origin, she had lived in Sweden from the age of seven until her death at age twenty-five. A luminous example of courage and integrity, she had done more than anyone to warn against the failure of Sweden’s integration policies in regard to persons like her parents. She had tried to make the nation understand that “honor”-as practiced in some communities-can be a deadly affair. She had warned that she might be killed for choosing her own love in life, Swedish-Iranian Patrik Lindesjö. But she was defeated when she least expected it-almost four years after the death threats against her had subsided.
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Unni Wikan is professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is the author of numerous books, including Behind the Veil in Arabia; Managing Turbulent Hearts; Tomorrow, God Willing; and Generous Betrayal—all published by the University of Chicago Press. In Honor of Fadime is a revised and extended, partly rewritten, version of her book For ærens skyld, which was first published in Norwegian in 2003.


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Unni Wikan

In Honor of Fadime
munder and shame

University of Chicago press

University of Chicago press
In Honor of Fadime
munder and shame
Unni Wikan
Translated by Anna Paterson

The university of chicago press Chicago and London

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London

© 2008 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Published 2008
Printed in the United States of America

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Originally published as For ærens skyld: Fadime til ettertanke
© Universitetsforlaget 2003.
This translation has been published with the financial support of Norla.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wikan, Unni, 1944–
[For ærens skyld. English.]
In honor of Fadime : murder and shame / Unni Wikan ;
translated by Anna Paterson. - Revised and extended,
partly rewritten version.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
isbn-13: 978-0-226-89686-1 (cloth : alk. paper)
isbn-10: 0-226-89686-2 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Sahindal, Fadime. 2. Honor killings-Sweden. 3. Family
Violence-Sweden. 4. Kurds-Sweden. I. Title.
HV6197.S8W5513 2003
306.87-dc22

2007033557

∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum
requirements of the American National Standard for
Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library
Materials, ansi z39.48-1992.

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89686-1 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0-226-89686-2 (cloth)




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