Death Is a Festival
Subtitle: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780807854457
Subjects: Customs; Death & Dying; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; General; Cemeteries; Sociology; Modern - 19th Century; History: World; Brazil; History; Latin America - General; History / Modern / 19th Century; Salvador, Bahia, Brazil; Catholic church burials; Cemiterada movement; death rituals; religious burial; funerary culture; Baroque Catholicism; Religion; 19th century; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Salvador
First sentence: Sir Robert Wilson, a commander in the British navy who had seen many lands and seas, wrote ecstatically when sailing into All Saints Bay in 1805, "The view of this Bay...is perhaps the most magnificent in the world."