"A Taste for Being Well Lodged After Their Decease:" Preliminary Thoughts on Jamaican Cemeteries
Author(s): Richard Veit
Year: 2018
Summary
This paper provides a brief introduction to Jamaica's 18th and 19th century burial grounds using select examples from Port Royal, Falmouth, Spanish Town, and plantation burial grounds, especially the Orange Valley estate. Documentary sources relating to burial and commemoration are also examined. The paper argues that Jamaican gravemarkers clearly reflect the social stratification present in colonial Jamaica, and highlight the great wealth that sugar planting brought to the island. Jamaican graveyards and memorials are compared to English, American, and other Carribean burial places. Directions for future research are also presented.
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"A Taste for Being Well Lodged After Their Decease:" Preliminary Thoughts on Jamaican Cemeteries. Richard Veit. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441394)
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Keywords
General
Cemeteries
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commemoration.
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Gravemarkers
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
18th-19th Centuries
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 643