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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Grace, author.

Series:

Ripley P. Bullen series.

Ripley P. Bullen Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Bahamas--Nassau--Antiquities.

Black people.

Cemeteries--Bahamas--Nassau.

Cemeteries.

Ethnoarchaeology--Bahamas--Nassau.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Nassau (Bahamas)--Antiquities.

Nassau (Bahamas).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2017.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2017).

ISBN:

1-68340-049-6

1-68340-036-4

OCLC:

1007291119