Death is a festival [electronic resource] : funeral rites and rebellion in nineteenth-century Brazil / João José Reis ; translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill.
Language: English Original language: Portuguese Series: Latin America in translation/en traducción/em traduçãoPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.Description: xiv, 386 p. : ill., maps 25 cmISBN:- 080786272X (electronic bk.)
- Morte é uma festa. English
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Brazil -- Salvador -- History -- 19th century
- Cemeteries -- Brazil -- Salvador -- History
- Salvador (Brazil) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Insurgency -- Brazil -- Salvador
- Brazil -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- 393.9/0981/09034 22
- GT3233.A2 R4513 2003eb
"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.
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2003. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
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