Death is a festival: funeral rites and rebellion in nineteenth-century Brazil
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1. Verfasser: Reis, João José (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2003
Schriftenreihe:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
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Online-Zugang:DE-1046
DE-1047
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Beschreibung:"Revised edition of a book that was originally published in Brazil in 1991 as A morte é uma festa"--Page [xiii]
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-371) and index
Introduction: the Cemiterada -- Setting of the Cemiterada -- Brotherhoods and baroque Catholicism -- The hour of death: means of dying well -- The hour of the dead: household funeral rites -- The pageantry of death: traditional funeral corteges -- Sacred space of the dead: the place of burial -- Bound for glory: funeral masses and divine advocates -- Civilizing customs (I): the medicalization of death -- Civilizing customs (II): legislated death -- Commercializing death: Provincial Law 17 -- The resistance against the cemetery -- Epilogue: after the revolt -- Appendix: Death as a business: funerary income and expenses
This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazil's independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 386 pages)
ISBN:0807827738
080785445X
080786272X
9780807827734
9780807854457
9780807862728

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