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

Reis, Joao Jose

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 080785445X ISBN 13 : 9780807854457

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2003

Synopsis

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 new concerns sparked by modernization and science. Viewing culture within its social context, he illuminates the commonalities and differences that shaped death and its rituals for rich and poor, men and women, slaves and masters, adults and children, foreigners and Brazilians. This translation makes the book, originally published in Brazil in 1993, available in English for the first time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

João José Reis is professor of history at Universidade Federal da Bahia in Brazil. He is author of Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080785445X
• ISBN 13: 9780807854457
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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