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

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

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

Title remainder

the archaeology of an eighteenth-century African-Bahamian cemetery

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Grace Turner

Language

eng

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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N$T

Dewey number

972.96

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index present

LC call number

F1659.N3

LC item number

T87 2017eb

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non fiction

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dictionaries
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Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series

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