THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE: The death archeological landscape in São Cristóvão and Laranjeiras – SE

Abstract

This paper aimed to characterize the death archeological landscape in the eighteenth century towns of São Cristóvão and Laranjeiras in Sergipe state, by using the roughness for the identification of old and contemporary territories of the death. In order to carry out the study, the representation and the history information were employed as characterization methods, with a qualitative analytical approach. Therefore, the initial premise proclaims that the death led to the formation of a dominant landscape in the towns by means of its relationship with the catholic religion. Currently, towns that preserve traces of such landscapes, as São Cristovão and Laranjeiras, are liable to archeological studies. By analyzing the death roughness, it was recognize that, during the past, the representation of death was daily present in the people´s life. Thus, it was inferred that there is a death landscape in these eighteenth century towns created by visible and invisible roughness. The visible ones are constituted by still existent Churches, tombstones, and cemeteries. The invisible ones are represented by everything that is covered or was reinterpreted as tombstones, cemeteries, and rituals.