Fotografia mortuária: a lembrança da saudade e da tristeza em duas famílias amapaenses

Abstract

Death as a universally shared experience presents diverse structural dynamics and reveals itself as an important element for understanding collectivities and the process of death. Among these different manifestations I present the death photograph as a practice that involves death, the dead, the family and memory. My research work is to understand the meanings and symbolic reasons that led two amapaense family groups to keep mortuary portraits of deceased loved ones. I sought to analyze, from the affective bonds, the existing relations between individuals and their images and to demonstrate how photography can be an instrument used in understanding the relationship that the living establish with their dead.