Simbologías sociales y religiosas en los cementerios de Bizkaia

ENRÍQUEZ FERNÁNDEZ, Javier
; SESMERO CUTANDA, Enriqueta

Publication year:

1999

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-8419-985-1

ISSN:

1137-439X

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Summary

Our extra-ecclesiastic cemeteries reflect the desestructurization by bourgeois liberalism of the ancient-régime community. They are a space of social acculturation and a show of classist urban compartimentation. The current performances in uniformity or distribution answer to a "neo-Basque" programming. Decoration loses its semantic wealth, except in tombs of politicians. The kitsch show devotional peculiarities and a homogeneous commercial offer. Nineteenth century religious fear gives way to solid and pleasant references (family, homeland, autochthonous culture), a response to the current existential in security.