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.

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Information

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Year

2003

ISBN

9780807862728

Topic

Storia

Subtopic

Storia dell'America Latina e dei Caraibi

Cover Page
Death is a Festival
Copyright Page
Epigraph
Contents
Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction The Cemiterada
1 Setting of the Cemiterada
2 Brotherhoods and Baroque Catholicism
3 The Hour of Death: Means of Dying Well
4 The Hour of the Dead: Household Funeral Rites
5 The Pageantry of Death: Traditional Funeral Corteges
6 Sacred Space of the Dead: The Place of Burial
7 Bound for Glory: Funeral Masses and Divine Advocates
8 Civilizing Customs (I): The Medicalization of Death
9 Civilizing Customs (II): Legislated Death
10 Commercializing Death: Provincial Law 17
11 The Resistance against the Cemetery
Epilogue After the Revolt
Appendix. Death as a Business: Funerary Income and Expenses
Notes
Bibliography
Index