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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Reis, João José. Death is a festival. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003 (DLC) 2002011996 (OCoLC)50279969 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
João José Reis |
ISBN: | 080786272X 9780807862728 |
OCLC Number: | 53932470 |
Notes: | "Revised edition of a book that was originally published in Brazil in 1991 as A morte é uma festa"--Page [xiii]. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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. |
Series Title: | Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. |
Other Titles: | Morte é uma festa. |
Responsibility: | João José Reis ; translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill. |
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"A pithy, nuanced, fluent translation that does justice to this well-written book." - John Charles Chasteen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


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