ANTH 108 Field Report on Barbadoes Street Cemetery
03 april 2025
1. Introduction
1.1. The purpose of this report is to provide information that will assist in the interpretation of selected gravestones at Barbadoes Street Cemetery. This includes describing:
· the history of the site;
· the social and cultural context in which the cemetery was established;
· the meaning of the different elements of the selected gravestones, and the relationship of those elements to society at the time;
· the place of religion and ideas about afterlives; and
· the message or symbolism of the gravestone.
1.2. The report is based on close readings of your field data, the various heritage reports and assessments (including those by the Christchurch City Council), as well as relevant anthropological and historical literature related to ‘deathways’.
1.3. The brief is to provide historical and cultural context for an analysis of five selected gravestones, to attend to meanings and connections, and to speak to questions of faith and afterlives.
2. Historical and Cultural Contexts in which Barbadoes Street was established
2.1. [Kemp’s Deed – the Canterbury Association – Barbadoes Street opening date and history – the nature of the site] 250 words
2.2. [the wider context: place Barbadoes Street in relation to revolutionary changes which led to a new regime of the dead in the nineteenth century – necro-nominalism (naming the dead) – the rise of the cemetery] 250 words
3. Interpretation of selected gravestones
3.1. [Names] [location]
[Insert text here] 200 words
3.2. [Names] [location]
[Insert text here] 200 words
3.3. [Names] [location]
[Insert text here] 200 words
3.4. [Names] [location]
[Insert text here] 200 words
3.5. [Names] [location]
[Insert text here] 200 words
4. Appendix A: Visual Aids to Interpretation
[Insert any cemetery maps and historical photographs here. Remember to include captions and source]
5. Appendix B: Visual Aids to Individual Graves
[Insert photographs of the selected gravestones here. Remember to include captions and source]
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