Tomb forms and social processes in Brazilian cemeteries

Abstract

This study emphasizes several levels of correlation between tomb forms and social processes, especially with respect to kin and family compositions based on the desire to assure continuity of family order by way of a shared genealogical memory. It also seeks to analyse and interpret the transition from burials cemtered on the family to a new model based on individualism.

Cemeteries; Tomb forms; Social processes; Kinship