Espaços da morte na vida vivida e suas sociabilidades no cemitério Santa Izabel em Belém-Pa: etnografia urbana e das emoções numa cidade cemiterial.

Abstract

Death permeates several fields of human experience in physical and imaginary terms, therefore, individual, collective and social. Such a construction surrounds the subjects, their relationships and social markers, as well as the social position in which certain individuals occupy, in this case, arranged in what I call the cemetery city. Therefore, this dissertation aims to identify how the emotions and experiences, experienced and reported, mostly by workers and passers-by of this cemetery city, embody, impact and influence their daily lives, working with and for death. Through the perspectives produced with workers, passers-by and users of Campo Santo, through an ethnography in the urban cemetery context, anchored in the three anthropological dimensions that interest me most directly - Emotions, Urban and Death -, I walked through the streets of the cities of the living and the dead considering their broader sensoriality (evoked by the sensitive, the imaginary and the rites), under listening and participant observation in the routine of the collective dates of strong symbolic reverberation of/in the Santa Izabel Cemetery. Through wandering through the cemetery streets I realized that those who circulate within the necropolis experience death in a joint experience with life in perspective of interaction with death. At burials, at symbolic-collective dates, and at other times referred to in this research, I noticed the ambience of the place that the city of the dead occupies in the city of the living, and reciprocally. In view of this, the research in question, through ethnography focused on the sensitive in the cemetery context, anthropoetry and street ethnography, opens space for reflections that consider the look of the subjects who handle death and understand it as a place in their lives, whether at work or outside of it, and thus dimension the borders that touch the day-to-day life of the necropolis, which reach beyond the limits of the Amazonian cemetery city.