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Sons of a Lesser God? Social Differentiation in Urban and Rural 19th and 20th Century Cemeteries. (2024)
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In 1835, a law in Portugal forced every city and village to build cemeteries with well-defined characteristics: a walled place had to be able to have large tombs, permanent graves, and temporary graves. Nine years later it became mandatory to bury the deceased in a cemetery and church burials were forbidden, thus many cemeteries were built in the mid-19th century, either in large urban centers or in small rural areas. Considering these differences this paper aims to analyze several cemeteries in...