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Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by João José Reis

Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

João José Reis

400 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective slow-paced
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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. The book opens with a lively account of ...

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