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BURYING THE ENEMY: THE NAZI GRAVES OF PORTUGAL

Article · October 13, 2018
Despite its status as a far-right dictatorship in the 1940s, Portugal never really entered the conflict in World War II. Prime Minister António de Oliveria Salazar led the country through...

How Death Positive Women Kickstarted a Civil War

Article · December 3, 2019
When elderly Custódia Teresa died in 1846, in the Portuguese village of Fontarcada, her neighbors rioted. The upheaval had very little to do with the fact that Teresa, specifically, had...

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...Portugal By Rafaela Ferraz Ferreira A broad look at the evolution and current status of Portuguese funerary practice. Over Her Dead Body: Femininity, Death and the Aesthetic By Elizabeth Bronfen...