Death is a festival [electronic resource] : funeral rites and rebellion in nineteenth-century Brazil / João José Reis ; translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Portuguese Series: Latin America in translation/en traducción/em traduçãoPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.Description: xiv, 386 p. : ill., mapsUniform titles: - Morte é uma festa. English
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Brazil -- El Salvador -- History -- 19th century
- Cemeteries -- Brazil -- El Salvador -- History
- Insurgency -- Brazil -- El Salvador
- Salvador (Brazil) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Brazil -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- 393.9/0981/09034 21
- GT3233.A2 R4513 2003eb
"Revised edition of a book that was originally published in Brazil in 1991 as A morte é uma festa"--Ack.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-371) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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