Funerary Practices Of The Basques In The Modern Age Americas. Comparing Colonial And Extractive Environments.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This paper aims to introduce a broad perspective on the adaptation of funerary customs of the Europeans to different contexts in western Atlantic territories. Previous work focused in featuring different burial traditions among the Basques and their manifestation in the fisheries of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, taking account that crews were formed by a mixture of people from different ritual backgrounds.

Now a new perspective is introduced and this subject is studied from a comparative perspective. Briefly, individuals from the same town and similar social status required the funerary care when they passed far from their homeland. Thus, I compare burial behaviours in the context of extractive industries in Canada with these that were performed by the Basques in the colonies of New France and the Spanish Empire. My goal is to highlight the way different backgrounds forced an heterogeneous group to adapt their religious behaviors.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023   •
• Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World

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