Fronteiras póstumas: a morte e as distinções sociais no cemitério Santo Antonio em Campo Grande

Abstract

The present study aims to examine the death and social distinctions in the cemetery Santo Antônio in Campo Grande - MS. The ratio of the polis with the necropolis was followed from the late nineteenth century until the sixties of the twentieth century. We analyzed how the elite and society campo-grandense understand death, and how their representations perpetuated social divisions established in life. It approaches the process of urbanization and development was proud that both the local elite that has always made a point of representing Campo Grande as a city different from the rest of Mato Grosso. At the same time who demanded a development and a civilization compared to the city of Sao Paulo, had neither a cemetery worthy, because it disregarded the laws of the municipality and the Catholic Church. A cemetery that was moved, twice -not to hinder the growth of the city with people who were not concerned even the walls so. In contact with the sources, there was a society marked by secularism, where the Catholic Church, because the fluidity of their presence, held a lateral position in society. This becomes more explicit in funeral rites, in the near absence of wills and in its purely secular.