Death is a festival : funeral rites and rebellion in nineteenth-century Brazil /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reis, João José
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Portugués
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003.
Colección:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Temas:
1800-1899
Geschichte 1835-1837.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Brazil > History > 19th century.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Brazil > Salvador > History > 19th century.
Cemeteries > Brazil > Salvador > History.
Insurgency > Brazil > Salvador.
Insurgency > Brazil > History.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Brésil > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Brésil > Salvador > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Cimetières > Brésil > Salvador > Histoire.
Révoltes > Brésil > Histoire.
Révoltes > Brésil > Salvador.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
Cemeteries
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Insurgency
Manners and customs
Aufstand
Bestattung
Brauch
Dodenbezorging.
Opstanden.
Salvador (Brazil) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Brazil > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Salvador (Brésil) > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle.
Brésil > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle.
Brazil
Brazil > Salvador
Bahia
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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