num_pages: 448
description: Originally published in Brazil in 1993, this award-winning book explores the traditions and beliefs--African, Portuguese, and Brazilian--surrounding death and burial in early 19th century Brazil.
language: English
title: Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
titlecomplete: Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
genres: Brazil, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 16
series: Latin America in Translation
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press