2024/11/28 by Sousa, Sofia
#counterfactual history #cultural landscapes #memorabilia #sociology
paper · doi:10.34626/2184-9978/2024_vol4_n1_1230
This article takes a brief theoretical and reflective look at Rafaela Ferraz's plenary session at the XXX Conference. The theme of the speaker's session was the counterfactual history of the tradition of funerals and burials in Portugal, the main aim of which was to imagine an alternative scenario in which cremation had been institutionalised as a practice earlier in the country. We started from this motto and questioned cemeteries as cultural landscapes, taking up the counter-narrative discourse in relation to cremation, but we also expanded our approach by looking at funeral cards, analysing them - albeit briefly - as memorabilia.