Books About Brazil » Death http://booksaboutbrazil.com Best books about Brazil Sun, 09 May 2010 21:51:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2010/03/06/death-is-a-festival-funeral-rites-and-rebellion-in-nineteenth-century-brazil/ http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2010/03/06/death-is-a-festival-funeral-rites-and-rebellion-in-nineteenth-century-brazil/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:57:46 +0000 admin http://booksaboutbrazil.com/?p=446
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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 the popular riot that ensued when, in 1836, the government condemned the traditional burial of bodies inside Catholic church buildings and granted a private company a monopoly over burials.

This episode is used by Reis to examine the customs of death and burial in Bahian society, explore the economic and religious conflicts behind the move for funerary reforms and the maintenance of traditional rituals of dying, and understand how people dealt with new concerns sparked by modernization and science. Viewing culture within its social context, he illuminates the commonalities and differences that shaped death and its rituals for rich and poor, men and women, slaves and masters, adults and children, foreigners and Brazilians.

This translation makes the book, originally published in Brazil in 1993, available in English for the first time.

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

]]> http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2010/03/06/death-is-a-festival-funeral-rites-and-rebellion-in-nineteenth-century-brazil/feed/ 0 Ufo Danger Zone: Terror & Death in Brazil http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2010/02/03/ufo-danger-zone-terror-death-in-brazil/ http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2010/02/03/ufo-danger-zone-terror-death-in-brazil/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:24:10 +0000 admin http://booksaboutbrazil.com/?p=371
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Bob Pratt has spent over eighteen years researching the Brazilian UFO phenomenon. He has made eleven visits to a number of localities in the Brazilian countryside and investigated over two hundred cases, during which time he has interviewed over seventeen hundred people. The fruits of his labor are always intriguing, sometime frightening, and should give pause to those who would thoughtlessly maintain, without studying the complete score, that all our extraterresrial visitors are friendly and have out best interest at heart.

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Ufo Danger Zone: Terror & Death in Brazil

]]> http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2010/02/03/ufo-danger-zone-terror-death-in-brazil/feed/ 5 Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2009/11/19/death-without-weeping-the-violence-of-everyday-life-in-brazil/ http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2009/11/19/death-without-weeping-the-violence-of-everyday-life-in-brazil/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:24:11 +0000 admin http://booksaboutbrazil.com/?p=177
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When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside “favela”. Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, the author follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing – and controversial – is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live. The author also wrote “Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland”.

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Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil

]]> http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2009/11/19/death-without-weeping-the-violence-of-everyday-life-in-brazil/feed/ 5 A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2009/10/29/a-death-in-brazil-a-book-of-omissions/ http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2009/10/29/a-death-in-brazil-a-book-of-omissions/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:57:50 +0000 admin http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2009/10/29/a-death-in-brazil-a-book-of-omissions/
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Deliciously sensuous and fascinating, Robb renders in vivid detail the intoxicating pleasures of Brazil’s food, music, literature, and landscape as he travels not only cross country but also back in time—from the days of slavery to modern day political intrigue and murder. Spellbinding and revelatory, Peter Robb paints a multi-layered portrait of Brazil as a country of intoxicating and passionate extremes.
Author: Peter Robb

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