Death Is a Festival Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Name: Death Is a Festival Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
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ISBN: 9780807854457

ISBN-10: 080785445X

ISBN-13: 9780807854457

Edition: 2003

Authors: Joï¿½o Josï¿½ Reis, Joï¿½o Josï¿½ Reis

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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 Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia. The book opens with a lively account of the popular riot that ensued when, in 1836, the government condemned the traditional burial of bodies inside Catholic church buildings and granted a private company a monopoly over burials. This episode is used by Reis to examine the customs of death and burial in Bahian society, explore the economic and religious conflicts behind the move for funerary reforms and the maintenance of traditional rituals of dying, and understand how people dealt with…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 6/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English



Acknowledgments


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



Death as a Business: Funerary Income and Expenses


Notes


Bibliography


Index