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

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This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites right through the early decades of Brazil’s independence from Portugal specializes in the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia. The book opens with a full of life account of the preferred 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 non secular conflicts at the back of the move for funerary reforms and the maintenance of traditional rituals of dying, and be aware 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, women and men, slaves and masters, adults and children, foreigners and Brazilians.

This translation makes the book, at the beginning published in Brazil in 1993, to be had in English for the first time.

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