Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space : The Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century African-Bahamian Cemetery /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turner, Grace (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Excavations (Archaeology)
Ethnoarchaeology.
Cemeteries.
Black people > Antiquities.
Antiquities.
African diaspora.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Africains > Pays etrangers.
Fouilles (Archeologie) > Bahamas > Nassau.
Ethnoarcheologie > Bahamas > Nassau.
Cimetieres > Bahamas > Nassau.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Bahamas > Nassau.
Ethnoarchaeology > Bahamas > Nassau.
Cemeteries > Bahamas > Nassau.
Black people > Bahamas > Nassau > Antiquities.
Bahamas > Nassau.
Nassau (Bahamas) > Antiquities.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: basic assumptions
  • An overview of Bahamian history in context
  • African influence on 18th and 19th century cemeteries
  • European influence on 18th and 19th century cemeteries
  • St. Matthew's northern burial ground
  • Bioarchaeological analysis of remains
  • Interpretations of artifacts and ecofacts.

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