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

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

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Author / Creator:	Turner, Grace, author.
Imprint:	Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2017]
Description:	x, 180 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series Ripley P. Bullen series.
Subject:	Blacks -- Bahamas -- Nassau -- Antiquities. Cemeteries -- Bahamas -- Nassau. Ethnoarchaeology -- Bahamas -- Nassau. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Bahamas -- Nassau. African diaspora. African diaspora. Antiquities. Blacks -- Antiquities. Cemeteries. Ethnoarchaeology. Excavations (Archaeology) Nassau (Bahamas) -- Antiquities. Bahamas -- Nassau.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11365556

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ISBN:	9781683400202 1683400208
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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