Nos domínios de Hades: a representação social da morte em Aracaju/SE durante a primeira república

Abstract

This paper studies the death in Aracaju society of the First Republic (1889-1930), from the perspective of social representation. The research seeks to clarify how men and women, adults and children, rich and poor behaved before death. Therefore, in seeking to understand the different perspectives on death would be examined how perceptions of individual and collective nature; wills are indicated as the main source of research and try them indicate the formulas, the votes and the latest provisions of the dead; also discuss death as a social event, a spectacle and her vision as a social drama. For this, the work will be used in some moments of narrative in the writing process, however, this will be through the use of different sources. Many studies have addressed the study of death in the nineteenth century, especially in changing burials from inside and around the churches to cemeteries, few were to surveys conducted during the First Republic, then, that dissertation proposes new approaches to the study death