Books by "João da Câmara"

6 books found

Death is a Festival

Death is a Festival

by João José Reis

2003 · Univ of North Carolina Press

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 popu

Recovered Voices, Newfound Questions

Recovered Voices, Newfound Questions

by Maria de Lurdes Rosa, Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa, Alice Borges Gago, Maria João da Câmara

2019 · Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press

O objectivo da obra é o de apresentar arquivos muito pouco conhecidos, ou mesmo desconhecidos, interrogá-los e analisá-los à luz de novas perspectivas históricas e arquivísticas, descobrir as “vozes” de quem os produziu - e formular, assim, novas questões de investigação. Divide-se em três partes: “Recovering, reconstructing and (re)discovering family and personal archives”; “From a social, political and cultural history of the families to a social history of the archives”; “Public preservation and promotion of family and personal archives”.