Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Joao Jose Reis (Author), H. Sabrina Gledhill (Author)

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Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Joao Jose Reis (Author), H. Sabrina Gledhill (Author)ISBN: 9780807854457 Publisher : The University of North Carolina Press, June 30, 2003 Paperback, 448 pages This award winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazils independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia. The book opens with a lively account of the popular riot that ensued when, in 1836, the government condemned the traditional burial of bodies

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