Death is a festival : funeral rites and rebellion in nineteenth-century Brazil / / João José Reis ; translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill
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| Autore: |
Reis João José
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| Titolo: |
Death is a festival : funeral rites and rebellion in nineteenth-century Brazil / / João José Reis ; translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2003 |
| ©2003 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina: | 393.9/0981/09034 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Salvador (Brazil) Social life and customs 19th century |
| Brazil Social life and customs 19th century | |
| Note generali: | "Revised edition of a book that was originally published in Brazil in 1991 as A morte é uma festa"--Ack. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-371) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Death is a festival |
| ISBN: | 979-88-908697-4-6 |
| 0-8078-6272-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780369103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.