ISBN:
080786272X
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9780807862728
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 386 p.)
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ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Latin America in translation / en traducción/em tradução
Series Statement:
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
Uniform Title:
Morte é uma festa 〈English〉
Uniform Title:
Morte é uma festa. 〈engl.〉
Parallel Title:
Print version Death is a festival
Keywords:
Funeral rites and ceremonies History
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19th century
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Brazil
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Funeral rites and ceremonies History
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19th century
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Brazil
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Salvador
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Cemeteries History
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Brazil
;
Salvador
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Insurgency Brazil
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Salvador
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Funérailles Rites et cérémonies
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Histoire
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19e siècle
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Brésil
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Funérailles Rites et cérémonies
;
Histoire
;
19e siècle
;
Brésil
;
Salvador
;
Cimetières Histoire
;
Brésil
;
Salvador
;
Révoltes Histoire
;
Brésil
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Funeral rites and ceremonies History 19th century
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Funeral rites and ceremonies History 19th century
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Cemeteries History
;
Insurgency
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Insurgency
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies History 19th century
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Funeral rites and ceremonies History 19th century
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Cemeteries History
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Manners and customs
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Dodenbezorging
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Opstanden
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Aufstand
;
Bestattung
;
Brauchtum
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Cemeteries
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies
;
Insurgency
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Death & Dying
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History
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Salvador (Brazil) Social life and customs
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19th century
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Brazil Social life and customs
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19th century
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Salvador (Brésil) Mœurs et coutumes
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19e siècle
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Brésil Moeurs et coutumes
;
19e siècle
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Bahia
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Brazil
;
Brazil
;
Salvador
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Salvador (Brazil) Social life and customs 19th century
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Brazil Social life and customs 19th century
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Salvador (Brazil) Social life and customs 19th century
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Brazil Social life and customs 19th century
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Brazil
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Bahia
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Brazil ; Salvador
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: the CemiteradaSetting 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.
Note:
"Revised edition of a book that was originally published in Brazil in 1991 as A morte é uma festa"--P. [xiii]. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-371) and index. - Description based on print version record
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-371) and index
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