Death is a festival : funeral rites and rebellion in nineteenth-century Brazil /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Reis, João José.
Uniform title:	Morte é uma festa. English
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:	English
Series:	Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Subject:	Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century. Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Brazil -- Salvador -- History -- 19th century. Cemeteries -- Brazil -- Salvador -- History. Insurgency -- Brazil -- Salvador. Cemeteries. Funeral rites and ceremonies. Insurgency. Manners and customs. Salvador (Brazil) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. Brazil -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. Brazil. Brazil -- Salvador. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11128573

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ISBN:	080786272X 9780807862728 0807827738 9780807827734 080785445X 9780807854457
Notes:	"Revised edition of a book that was originally published in Brazil in 1991 as A morte é uma festa"--Page [xiii]. Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-371) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Reis, João José. Morte é uma festa. English. Death is a festival. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003 0807827738 080785445X

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