Mortuary styles and modes of sociability in nineteenth-century Brazilian cemeteries
The analytical focus of this work is the social treatment meted out to the dead and burial forms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. How might one read and understand the attitudes and social meanings of a given time from its system of funerary objects, funerary practices and styles?...
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
2010-01-01
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| Series: | Horizontes Antropológicos |
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| Online Access: | http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-71832010000100003&lng=en&tlng=en |