Um último adeus: práticas fúnebres e a busca da boa morte nos séculos XIX e XX – São João do Rio de Peixe-PB.

Abstract

This research discusses the funeral practices in São João do Rio do Peixe-PB, where it analyzes an analysis of the symbolic senses and sensitivities built through the way in which people related to death, the dead and dying during life. second half of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thus, the study focuses on the funeral rituals dispensed at the time of death and body care, since these ways of relating to the last goodbye produced senses and sensibilities based on the beliefs that embraced the way men and women they thought the last goodbye. These senses and emotions are present in the narratives of the peasants' life, as the source of analysis was the use of oral history with residents of São João do Rio do Peixe, as well as funeral photographs, death records and Tombo's book. Mother Church Our Lady of the Rosary. Through the sources, we can see how the funeral practices were constituted and how they were reframing over time. In this sense, these subjects sought the good death, the good death, in which they were integrated into the Catholic Church and its healing practices for the soul and body. Someone would have to take care of the dead, had to deal with death, and the family was in charge of performing the rite of passage and post - mortem. Thus, discussing death and trying to explain how the ways of dealing with the body were constituted from their beliefs and perceiving death as a social construction is our goal.