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Death and Funeral Practices in Portugal book cover

1st Edition

Death and Funeral Practices in Portugal

By Rafaela Ferraz Ferreira, Ana Júlia Almeida Miranda, Francisco Queiroz Copyright 2022
162 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Academic studies on death and cemeteries are relatively recent in Portugal; those that do exist tend to adopt an essentially historical and artistic point of view. Studies on the practicalities of managing the dead and their spaces are even more recent, and they do not yet form a cohesive body of work. Combining both approaches, Death and Funeral Practices in Portugal is the first book to... Read more

1. Introduction

2. History of Portuguese Funerary Practice

3. Demographic and Legal Frameworks

4. Governance and Professionalization

5. Religion and Funerary Practice

6. The Funeral Directing Industry

7. A Typical Funeral

8. Paying for Funerals

9. Burial

10. Cremation

11. Commemoration

12. Conservation

Biography

Rafaela Ferraz Ferreira is a writer and independent researcher with a focus on Portuguese death practices, specifically current and emerging forms of body disposal.

Ana Júlia Almeida Miranda works in Aveiro as a technical assistant of two public cemeteries, Esgueira and Taboeira, dealing with all the legal and bureaucratical matters of managing and maintaining the two cemeteries.

Francisco Queiroz is a Portuguese art historian, and researcher at both CEPESE (Oporto) and ARTIS-IHA/FLUL (Lisbon).

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