Death is a festival funeral rites and rebellion in nineteenth-century Brazil - Reis, João José (University of North Carolina Press, 2003)
"Revised edition of a book that was originally published in Brazil in 1991 as A morte é uma festa"--Page [xiii]
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-371) and index
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
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
Keywords: Geschichte 1835-1837; 1800 - 1899; Geschichte 1800-1900; Funérailles / Rites et cérémonies / Brésil / Histoire / 19e siècle; Funérailles / Rites et cérémonies / Brésil / Salvador / Histoire / 19e siècle; Cimetières / Brésil / Salvador / Histoire; Révoltes / Brésil / Histoire; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying; Cemeteries; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Insurgency; Manners and customs; Dodenbezorging; Opstanden; Aufstand; Bestattung; Brauchtum; Geschichte; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Brazil -- Salvador -- History -- 19th century; Cemeteries -- Brazil -- Salvador -- History; Insurgency -- Brazil -- Salvador; Brauch; Brasilien; Bundesstaat Bahia