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Reis João José |
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Death is a festival : funeral rites and rebellion in nineteenth-century Brazil / / João José Reis ; translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill |
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Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2003 |
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©2003 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908697-4-6 |
0-8078-6272-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Collana |
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Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Funeral rites and ceremonies - Brazil - History - 19th century |
Funeral rites and ceremonies - Brazil - El Salvador - History - 19th century |
Cemeteries - Brazil - El Salvador - History |
Insurgency - Brazil - El Salvador |
Salvador (Brazil) Social life and customs 19th century |
Brazil Social life and customs 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Revised edition of a book that was originally published in Brazil in 1991 as A morte é uma festa"--Ack. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-371) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Illustrations, Maps, and Tables; Acknowledgments; Brazilian Edition Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Cemiterada; 1. Setting of the Cemiterada; 2. Brotherhoods and Baroque Catholicism; 3. The Hour of Death: Means of Dying Well; 4. The Hour of the Dead: Household Funeral Rites; 5. The Pageantry of Death: Traditional Funeral Corteges; 6. Sacred Space of the Dead: The Place of Burial; 7. Bound for Glory: Funeral Masses and Divine Advocates; 8. Civilizing Customs (I): The Medicalization of Death; 9. Civilizing Customs (II): Legislated Death; 10. Commercializing Death: Provincial Law 17 |
11. The Resistance against the Cemetery; Epilogue: After the Revolt; Appendix. Death as a Business: Funerary Income and Expenses; Notes; Bibliography; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazil's independence from Portugal focuses on the |
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