TY - JOUR
T1 - Revisitando os livros dos mortos
T2 - Mortalidade e morbidade nas colônias alemãs do sul do Brasil, 1850-1880
AU - Biehl, João
AU - Mugge, Miquéias Henrique
AU - Goldani, Ana Maria
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Princeton University’s Center for Health and Wellbeing and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs for supporting this study. We benefited immensely from conversations with colleagues associated with the Brazil LAB (Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies) at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. We also want to express our deepest gratitude to the Lutheran communities who kindly facilitated our archival research. We are indebted to Erny Mugge, Iria Hauenstein, Tom Vogl, Ana Silvia Volpi Scott, Sergio Nadalin, Sandro Blume, Monica Karawejczyk, Fernando Acosta-Rodriguez, and Naomi Zucker, for their wonderful help. Special thanks to the Danish artist Torben Eskerod who joined us in the field, and whose beautiful photographs are integral to this essay. Thank you also to the editorial team of História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos and to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable insights.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Examines mortality and morbidity in São Leopoldo/RS (1850-1880). Our interdisciplinary study is based on the Gemeindebücher (parish registers) produced by Lutheran communities. These “community books” reveal high rates of fertility and premature death. Infant mortality and maternal death assailed everyday life. Over half of all deaths were of infants and children. Of ten funerals, seven were for children and adults of reproductive and military age. This article contributes to debates over environmental, social and political determinants of mortality and people’s arts of living and healing in proto-statistical Brazil.
AB - Examines mortality and morbidity in São Leopoldo/RS (1850-1880). Our interdisciplinary study is based on the Gemeindebücher (parish registers) produced by Lutheran communities. These “community books” reveal high rates of fertility and premature death. Infant mortality and maternal death assailed everyday life. Over half of all deaths were of infants and children. Of ten funerals, seven were for children and adults of reproductive and military age. This article contributes to debates over environmental, social and political determinants of mortality and people’s arts of living and healing in proto-statistical Brazil.
KW - German immigration
KW - Infant mortality and maternal death
KW - Lutheran parish registers
KW - Mucker War
KW - Proto-statistical Brazil
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U2 - 10.1590/S0104-59702018000500019
DO - 10.1590/S0104-59702018000500019
M3 - Article
C2 - 30624486
AN - SCOPUS:85059795332
SN - 0104-5970
VL - 25
SP - 1197
EP - 1217
JO - Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos
JF - Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos
IS - 4
ER -