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Honoring ancestors in sacred space : the archaeology of an eighteenth-century African-Bahamian cemetery /

Throughout life black Africans in the Bahamas worked, voluntarily or not, and possessed material items of various degrees of importance to them and within their culture. St. Matthews was a cemetery in Nassau at the water's edge--or sometimes slightly below. This project emerged from archaeologi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Turner, Grace (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2017.
Colección:Ripley P. Bullen series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Throughout life black Africans in the Bahamas worked, voluntarily or not, and possessed material items of various degrees of importance to them and within their culture. St. Matthews was a cemetery in Nassau at the water's edge--or sometimes slightly below. This project emerged from archaeological excavations at this site to identify and recover materials associated with the interred before the area was completely developed. The area has been "collected" for decades--both professionally and by interested citizens, and Dr. Turner, a native Bahamian, coupled the results of her research excavations with the collections and archival material, to provide insight into the lives and deaths of the interred
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781683400363
1683400364