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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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Autor principal: Turner, Grace (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.