DE COMO OS MORTOS VIAM OS VIVOS: DO IMAGINÁRIO DOS MORADORES DA COMARCA DO PRÍNCIPE, RIO GRANDE DO NORTE, BRASIL, SOBRE A MORTE NA SEGUNDA METADE DO SÉCULO XIX

Abstract

Lately the studies of the historiografia occidental person have if dedicated sufficiently to the studies on the death.
In this direction, we leave of the constatação of the common sense of that the death in the Seridó potiguar still is surrounded of distrusts and taboos. Considering existence of documentation in Quantity of Judicial district of Caicó, that it sends to the last desires of the livings creature of the old Vila and later Cidade do Príncipe on what the death would have to be made after, appeared the initiative for accomplishment of this study. Being thus, our objective is to understand the imaginary one that the will authors of the Príncipe had on the death in century XIX. To reach such objective, our methodology consisted of readings made in the bibliography published regarding the death, reading of academic texts of the e region later the catalogação of the sources, followed of transcription and analysis of wills. The construction of the research took as base the readings of Philippe Ariès, Michel Vovelle and João Jose Reis, with which we think the imaginary notion of and the death and its histories. In wills we ahead find elements of imaginary of Príncipe of the century XIX concerning the attitudes of the death and the deliberations how much to the choice of its executors, as well as the file of legal documents receipts of accounts. The narratives gifts in wills are representations of the imaginary one of the Príncipe, of the second half of century XIX, where the bequeather and the executor have its action evidenced for the desire of a "good death".