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

Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. The Cemiterada 3(12) Setting of the Cemiterada 15(24) Brotherhoods and Baroque Catholicism 39(27) The Hour of Death: Means of Dying Well 66(25) The Hour of the Dead: Household Funeral Rites 91(26) The Pageantry of Death: Traditional Funeral Corteges 117(36) Sacred Space of the Dead: The Place of Burial 153(34) Bound for Glory: Funeral Masses and Divine Advocates 187(29) Civilizing Customs (I): The Medicalization of Death 216(27) Civilizing Customs (II): Legislated Death 243(19) Commercializing Death: Provincial Law 17 262(17) The Resistance against the Cemetery 279(27) Epilogue. After the Revolt 306(7) Appendix. Death as a Business: Funerary Income and Expenses 313(12) Notes 325(30) Bibliography 355(18) Index 373