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

Reis, Joao Jose.

Death is a festival funeral rites and rebellion in nineteenth-century Brazil / [electronic resource] : Joao Jose Reis ; translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. - xiv, 386 p. : ill., maps. - Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducao . - Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducao. .

"Revised edition of a book that was originally published in Brazil in 1991 as A morte e uma festa"--Ack.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-371) and index.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.




Funeral rites and ceremonies--History--Brazil--19th century.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--History--Brazil--El Salvador--19th century.
Cemeteries--History.--Brazil--El Salvador
Insurgency--Brazil--El Salvador.


Salvador (Brazil)--Social life and customs--19th century.
Brazil--Social life and customs--19th century.


Electronic books.

GT3233.A2 / R4513 2003

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