- Home
- Contents
- Introduction
- Contents and Expectations
- Format
- Navigation
- Disclosure
- Editorial Method
- Internet Link Policy
- Credits
- Copyright/Usage Policy
- Key Concepts
- Who are African Americans?
- What is ethnography?
- What is “culture?”
- What are cultural resources?
- What are “ethnographic” cultural resources?
- What is “heritage preservation?”
- What is stewardship?
- What is the NPS Thematic Framework?
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Ethnographic Research Center
- What is Ethnographic Research?
- Why is Ethnographic Research conducted?
- Who conducts Ethnographic Research?
- How is it different from other Social Science Research?
- What are Ethnographic Research methodologies?
- How does the NPS use Ethnographic Research?
- Who uses Ethnographic Research?
- How does Ethnographic Research help with the preservation of
Ethnographic Resources?
- Ethics in Ethnographic Research
- Module I-African Nation Founders 1500–1799
- Overview
- Historic
Contexts
- Africans Before Captivity
- Exchanging People for Trade Goods
- Why was African Heritage Lost?
- Who were the First Africans in America?
- The Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Which Europeans Trafficked in Slaves?
- Laws that Bound
- Laws that Freed
- Wars
- Conclusion
- Cultural Heritage
- Africans in Spanish America
- Spanish and African Arrivals
- African/Afro-Hispanic Space
- African Explorers of Spanish America
- Conquistadors and Miltiamen
- Sistema de Las Castas
- Development and Settlement
- Social Class and Economics
- Counter Cultural Resistance
- Conclusion
- Africans in the Chesapeake
- Time, Space & People
- Cultural Patterns
- Africans in the Low Country
- Time, Space & People
- Cultural Patterns
- Africans in French America
- Louisiana and the African Arrivals
- Louisiane or Louisland
- M. Le Page du Pratz
- Le Gens de Couleur (Libre)
- Cultural Resistance
- Conclusion
- African Systems of Meaning
- Language
- Performing Culture in Music & Dance
- Acculturation & Cultural Resistance
- Counter-Cultural Resistance
- Freedom For a People
- Africans in the Northern Colonies
- Dutch, Swedish, German & English Africans?
- African Cultural Patterns & life Styles
- Work, Health, Death & Burial
- Venture Smith: Self-Liberated African
- Enslaved African Women & the Court
- Ceremonies: Public & Secret, Sacred & Secular
- Acculturation: Africans and Institutions
- Pathways to Freedom
- African Militiamen, War and Freedom
- African Americans After the Revolution
- Free African Networks
- Dinah Whipple: Free African Woman
- Credits
- Module II-African American Nation
Builders 1800–1865
- Module III-“Lifting as We Climb” 1865–1965
- Heritage Preservation
Notes (HPN)
- Who Preserves Heritage?
- Heritage Preservation Law
- Antiquities Act 1906
- Organic Act of 1916
- Historic Act of 1935
- National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (amended)
- National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
- Protecting Indigenous Peoples’ Patrimony
- American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978
- Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of
1990 (NAGPRA)
- Alaska National Interests Lands Conservation Act of 1994
(ANILCA)
- Other Laws, Policies and Executive Orders
- National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Act of 1998,
Public Law 105-203
- American Battlefield Protection Act of 1996
- Executive Order 13287 Preserve America signed by President
George Bush, 2004
- The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines
for Federal Agency Historic Preservation Programs Pursuant to
the National Historic Preservation Act. (Published in Final
Federal Register 24 April 1998)
- Ethnography and Heritage Preservation
- Technical Assistance in Planning
- Planning and Resource Studies
- Training and Education
- Researched-Based Interpretation
- Whose Heritage Is It?
- Learning Resources Center
- References
- Africans in Spanish America
- Africans in the Chesapeake
- Africans in the Low Country
- Africans Systems of Meaning
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Introduction
- Key Concepts
- Ethnographic Research Basics
- Historic Contexts
- Africans in Spanish America
- Africans in Southern Colonies
- Africans in French America
- Africans in the Northern Colonies
- Heritage Preservation Implications
- Links
- Image
Gallery