Im dunkelsten Afrika: Im dunkelsten Afrika, 2. Band

Anthropos, 94.1999

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Titel:: Im dunkelsten Afrika

Untertitel:: Aufsuchung, Rettung und Rückzug Emin Pascha's, Gouverneurs der Aequatorialprovinz : mit 150 Abbildungen und 3 Karten

Autor:: Stanley, Henry Morton

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Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Gesamtdarstellungen und Sammelwerke; Geologie und Geographie; Geschichte

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Titel:: Im dunkelsten Afrika, 2. Band

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124 Dorie Drackle Anthropos 94.1999 have changed, but the memories of earlier periods and hardships bound up with one’s social standing remain in place and never cease to resurface as an object of protest in discussions on death and mortuary customs - discussions which never fail to draw attention to the miserable condition of today’s poor and propertyless for whose welfare, it is claimed, the government is doing nothing. In discussions on death with Odemira inhabitants, the conversation sooner or later returns, without exception, to the terrible earlier periods - and this, linked to references to the spectre of poverty in more recent times, for which in their view the government bears the main responsibility. Cemeteries During an interview in one of the remote villages at the edge of the region, Sao Martinho, I make my way across the village on foot with my informant, Maria Augusta (27.19.93). She wanted to show me all the important places for her personal biog raphy. When we arrive at the church, we view the construction work for a small holy niche, which a local nun has donated. As we circumambulate the church, Maria Augusta explains that her aunt was buried on the precise spot on which we are standing, in 1890. She was only 18 years old at the time, wanted to marry and died tragically of tuberculosis shortly before the wedding. However, in the same year, the new cemetery was opened on a hill above the village and the aunt ought rightly to have been buried there. This, however, did not occur. The story becomes comprehensible in the light of the following developments. In 1835, the liberal government had passed a law according to which burials in the church, directly along the church wall and in the church graveyard (adro) were no longer permitted for rea sons of hygiene (Pina Cabral and Feijo 1983: 25). This innovation led to protests and revolts across the length and breadth of the land, of which the most famous was the revolt of “Maria da Fonte” (in the 1840s; Riegelhaupt 1981). The liberal government sought to argue its case by citing Enlightenment ideas which brought medical and hygienic factors to bear. The protesters justified their opposition by asserting that they did not wish to separate themselves from “their deads” (os nossos mortos), who, if they continued to be buried in/or along the church, would be enclosed within the memory and susceptible to the intercession of all parishioners (Pina Cabral and Feijo 1983: 30). The implementation of the new cemetery laws proceeded during the remaining decades of the last century. Even today one still senses opposition to the establishment of cemeteries (1983: 40). Feijo and Pina Cabral make explicit reference only to the north of Portugal in their article. I am assuming that such opposition also sur faced in the south, here in the district of Odemira, as the rest of the story recounted by my informer, Maria Augusta, leads one to suppose: My great-grandfather was so disgusted that his beloved little daughter should have to lie out there alone in the new cemetery that he broke into tears. He went to the priest and begged him to have mercy on his daughter. After much toing and froing - the priest was forbidden to carry out burials in the churchyard on pain of sanctions - the priest nevertheless decided to soften his line and as a result my aunt was the last person to be buried right in the middle of the village beneath this small street. And as a result the priest really was punished, although it was my great-grandfather who paid the fine. A short time later, an old beggar died and he was then the first person to be buried out there in the new cemetery, and of course this didn’t cause any difficulties because he was alone and no longer had any relatives and as such he “christened” the new cemetery as it were. Even after this, people continued not to want be buried so far away from the village for fear of lack of protection against evil powers and because they preferred to be buried near to their relatives. Much protest and many voices of discontent continued to be heard, but the new laws were unstoppable. Cemeteries in Former Times In the village of Garvao in the neighbouring district of Ourique but lying in the immediate vicinity of Sao Martinho, there is an abandoned old cemetery dating back to the last century, which was installed only about 50 metres away from a Manueline chapel. The walls of the old cemetery are in ruins, the wrought iron gate hangs obliquely from the frame. The inner court of the old cemetery is overgrown with high grasses and weeds. There are no longer any gravestones to be seen, apart from a dented, cast-iron stand which was previously used as a grave frame. Such frames were only installed in those graves where a perma nent right to a resting place had been obtained. An older gentleman who lives nearby recounted that as youngsters they had used the cemetery for dares and escapades and for playing, just as youngsters continued to do today. The remains of the dead from the old cemetery were not removed to the new cemetery which was inaugurated at the beginning of this century. In

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