Tales and tears of the countryside memory on funeral rites from the 1930s to the 1960s

Authors

  • Victor Rafael Limeira da Silva Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte – UFRN
  • Lucas Gomes de Medeiros Universidade Estadual da Paraíba – UEPB

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1645-2259_16_22

Keywords:

Memory, death, funeral rites, representations, countryside

Abstract

We dialogued with and discussed the memory of older countryside women from Paraiba and Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil) about death and its  representations in burial rituals in the first and beginning of the second half of the 20th century. We noted from the narratives of memories, places and social roles towards death, especially in the care rituals of the bodies, the funeral and the work of mourning. We show the construction of sociabilities around the death that involved forged attitudes toward life itself, understanding that death in this period could be represented as a strange break or with a continuous familiarity.

https://doi.org/10.14195/1645-2259_16_22

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Published

2016-12-30

Issue

Vol. 16 (2016)

Section

Artigos

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