Death is a festival funeral rites and rebellion in nineteenth-century Brazil
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University of North Carolina Press
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| Schriftenreihe: | Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
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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 |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 386 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0807827738 080785445X 080786272X 9780807827734 9780807854457 9780807862728 |