Abstract

VIANA, Carmeci dos Reis  and  ALVES, Laura Maria Silva Araújo. RUDES OF VELORUS AND SEPULTY OF CHILDREN IN THE HISTORY OF CHILDREN IN BELÉM DO PARÁ (1910-1914). Revista Teias [online]. 2018, vol.19, n.52, pp.77-90.  Epub Mar 10, 2020. ISSN 1982-0305.  https://doi.org/10.12957/teias.2018.30602.

This article discusses the initial insertions of the research that is being developed in the Master's thesis in the Graduate Program in Education that investigates the rituals of the funeral and burial of children in Belém of Pará (1910 and 1914). From a bibliographical point of view, this research was developed from a survey of authors that deal with infant mortality and cultural practices in the ritual of farewell to the child in death. The objectives that guided the article were: (1) to highlight aspects of infant mortality and the rituals of the wake and burial of children in Belém of Pará; (2) to point out the relation between the rituals of the wake and the burial of children with the myth of veneration of the souls of the angels. The preliminary results indicate that infant mortality was the great scourge at the beginning of the Republic and that the rituals of preparation of the body, the wake and the burial were related to the religious idea that to die angel was a sign of purification of the soul. The data also reveal that, on the one hand, the rites of the wake and the burial of the child were interconnected to the socioeconomic level of the child and the religiosity of their relatives, and on the other, the rite of veneration of the dead child from the apparatuses and artifacts that gave the angel an air of docility and purity.

Keywords : History of Childhood; Child mortality; Worship and Burial.

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