Death is a festival : funeral rites and rebellion in nineteenth-century Brazil / Joao Jose Reis ; translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reis, João José.

Series:

Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducao.

Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducao

Standardized Title:

Morte é uma festa. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Brazil--History--19th century.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Brazil--El Salvador--History--19th century.

Cemeteries--Brazil--El Salvador--History.

Cemeteries.

Insurgency--Brazil--El Salvador.

Insurgency.

Salvador (Brazil)--Social life and customs--19th century.

Salvador (Brazil).

Brazil--Social life and customs--19th century.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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;

Notes:

"Revised edition of a book that was originally published in Brazil in 1991 as A morte e uma festa"--Ack.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-371) and index.

ISBN:

9798890869746

9780807862728

080786272X

OCLC:

476236194