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

by João José Reis

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080785445X
• ISBN13: 9780807854457
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"