Honoring ancestors in sacred space: the archaeology of an eighteenth-century african-bahamian cemetery
Auteur :
Turner, Grace
Éditeur :
University Press of Florida
ISBN :
9781683400202
Date de publication :
21 nov. 2017
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,2 x 1,6 cm
Poids :
415 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Throughout life black Africans in the Bahamas 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.