Spatiality Mortuary: Symbolic Interactionism Representations and Religious

Abstract

Symbolic Interactionism part of the principle that individuals act from their meanings, and people attach to them. People and saw things this way, a whole culture, a stage where they develop scenarios of interaction. In this context, we start reading socio-interactionist Erving Goffman (1985) that analyzes the space as a space of representations, where each individual represents a role, like in a theater. Religion is part of the structural representations mainly regarding the condition of human finitude and death resulting from social interactions. Spatiality mortuary presents itself as a privileged these relationships. From the peculiar sense of the interactions arising from the death we see the dynamics of life. Cemeteries are places of being-together very specific, because it is a meeting place between the memory of the deceased and the living. It develops in these places than in other situations, an entire game appearances, the dead are symbolized in different times with different forms and in this respect the representational world of religion provides a sense specific to that dynamic. To study the interactions that occur in cemeteries, we analyze a cemetery located in the city of Curitiba - Paraná, Curitiba Vertical Cemetery.