Death is a festival funeral rites and rebellion in nineteenth-century Brazil / [electronic resource] :
João José Reis ; translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
- xiv, 386 p. : ill., maps 25 cm.
- Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução .
"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.
080786272X (electronic bk.)
Funeral rites and ceremonies--History--Brazil--19th century. Funeral rites and ceremonies--History--Brazil--Salvador--19th century. Cemeteries--History.--Brazil--Salvador Insurgency--Brazil--Salvador.
Salvador (Brazil)--Social life and customs--19th century. Brazil--Social life and customs--19th century.