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

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
	©2003

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
	Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Note	"Revised edition of a book that was originally published in Brazil in 1991 as A morte é uma festa"--Page [xiii].
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-371) and index.
Contents	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 -- Appendix: Death as a business: funerary income and expenses.
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.
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Subject	Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century.
	Funeral rites and ceremonies.
	Brazil.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Brazil -- Salvador -- History -- 19th century.
	Brazil -- Salvador.
	Cemeteries -- Brazil -- Salvador -- History.
	Cemeteries.
	Salvador (Brazil) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
	Insurgency -- Brazil -- Salvador.
	Insurgency.
	Brazil -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
	Manners and customs.
Chronological Term	Geschichte 1835-1837.
	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Added Title	Morte é uma festa. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002106267
Other Form:	Print version: Reis, João José. Morte é uma festa. English. Death is a festival. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003 0807827738 080785445X (DLC) 2002011996 (OCoLC)50279969
ISBN	080786272X (electronic book)
	9780807862728 (electronic book)
	0807827738 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780807827734 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	080785445X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	9780807854457 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

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

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