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Keywords: Cemetery - City - Jardim do Seridó.
This thesis aims to discuss the factors that led to the construction of the public cemetery of Jardim do Seridó, a city located in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte, and how these factors implicated in changes in funeral culture and urban social processes. Therefore, there was a need to think about the hygienist theories that permeated the nineteenth century, considering their influences on the construction of new spaces of modernity, especially the space of death, like the first extramural cemeteries in Brazil. Assuming that the cemetery is an integral part of every city, since to think about urbanization plans for a city one must keep in mind the place where the deceased will go, the main purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between the city of the dead and the city of the living. The period analyzed comprises the second half of the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, through the analysis of speeches and reports of the Presidents of Provinces, death books, laws, municipal decrees, wills and posture codes. The relationship between the cemetery and the city is understood based on Michel de Certeau (1998) thoughts, from the perspective of how subjects create spaces through practices.