How Long to Read Death Is a Festival

How Long Does it Take to Read Death Is a Festival?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Death Is a Festival by João José Reis

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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 popular riot that ensued when, in 1836, the government condemned the traditional burial of bodies inside Catholic church buildings and granted a private company a monopoly over burials. This episode is used by Reis to examine the customs of death and burial in Bahian society, explore the economic and religious conflicts behind the move for funerary reforms and the maintenance of traditional rituals of dying, and understand how people dealt with new concerns sparked by modernization and science. Viewing culture within its social context, he illuminates the commonalities and differences that shaped death and its rituals for rich and poor, men and women, slaves and masters, adults and children, foreigners and Brazilians. This translation makes the book, originally published in Brazil in 1993, available in English for the first time.

How long is Death Is a Festival?

Death Is a Festival by João José Reis is 400 pages long, and a total of 100,000 words.

This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Death Is a Festival Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read Death Is a Festival aloud.

What Reading Level is Death Is a Festival?

Death Is a Festival is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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