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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-101474473784

ISBN-139781474473781

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Number of Pages232 Pages

Publication NameDeath in the Diaspora : British and Irish Gravestones

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEurope / Great Britain / General, Anthropology / General

Publication Year2020

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

AuthorAngela Mccarthy

FormatHardcover

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsThe volume is likely to be/prove of interest to those from a variety of backgrounds - not only scholars of death studies but also those interested in national and diasporic identities and historians of the British Empire, while it is equally approachable for genealogists and family historians. The collection of studies raises wider issues of what it means to be British and Irish today and provides a stepping stone for similar work exploring expressions of identity by different ethnic groups moving within and migrating into Britain.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal393.109171241

Table Of Content1.Introduction: Death in the diaspora: British and Irish gravestones Nicholas J. Evans and Angela McCarthy 2. Forgetting and remembering: Ulster Scots memorials in Ulster, North America and Australia Harold Mytum 3. Imposing identity: Death markers to 'English' people in Barbados, 1627-1838 Nicholas J. Evans 4. Looking for thistles in stone gardens: The cemeteries of Nova Scotia's Scottish immigrants Laurie Stanley-Blackwell and Michael Linkletter 5. Scottish headstones in Ceylon in comparative perspective Angela McCarthy 6. Irish memorialisation in South Australia, 1850-1899 Janine McEgan 7. Memorialising the diasporic Cornish Philip Payton 8. Documents in stone: Records of lives and deaths of Scots abroad and in Scotland John M. MacKenzie 9. Conclusion Angela McCarthy and Nicholas J. Evans

SynopsisAs British and Irish migrants sought new lives in the Caribbean, Asia, North America and Australasia, they left a trail of physical remains where settlement occurred. Between the 17th and 20th centuries, gravestones and elaborate epitaphs documented identity and attachment to their old and new worlds. This book expands upon earlier examination of cultural imperialism to reveal how individuals, kinship groups and occupational connections identified with place and space over time. With analyses based on gravestones and memorial markers in the UK and Ireland, Australasia, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the contributors explore how this evidence can inform 21st-century ideas about the attachments that British and Irish migrants had to 'home' - in both life and death., As British and Irish migrants sought new lives in the Caribbean, Asia, North America and Australasia, they left a trail of physical remains where settlement occurred. Between the 17th and 20th centuries, gravestones and elaborate epitaphs documented identity and attachment to their old and new worlds. This book expands upon earlier examination of cultural imperialism to reveal how individuals, kinship groups and occupational connections identified with place and space over time.With analyses based on gravestones and memorial markers in the UK and Ireland, Australasia, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the contributors explore how this evidence can inform 21st-century ideas about the attachments that British and Irish migrants had to 'home' - in both life and death.The book explores aspects of sociolinguistic difference evident in death markers and offers some insights into how growing literacy amongst migrant communities shaped the form of grave epitaphs. It expands upon earlier analyses of cultural imperialism to see how individual families and kinship groups identified with place and space over time and discusses how post-medieval archaeology from a range of death landscapes highlight difference rather than uniformity - including influences by Dutch, Jewish, Muslim and non-religious norms upon memorialisation practices. It also reveals how women and children, often marginalised voices in imperial scholarship, were as likely to be provided with more elaborate death markers than their male counterparts and challenges ideas of chain migration by demonstrating that families often moved to different, rather than similar, destinations overseas., Pioneering comparative study of how and why migrants from Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales displayed attachment to home on headstones and memorial markers erected across the British World between the 17th and 20th centuries.

LC Classification NumberGN486