Catching Sense: African American Communities on a South Carolina Sea Island

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Plantation membership, crucial association that continues to carry meaning in as of late’s African-American communities on the Sea Islands, depends on one’s place of dwelling between the ages of two and 12. This is the time when one catches sense, or learns the difference between right and fallacious and the meaning of social relationships. Plantation membership confers rights and duties to its members for life, particularly in the areas of dispute settlement, adjudication, and status confirmation. The praise house system, which used to be the point of interest of plantation life, is analyzed historically and with regards to the ethnographic present. Guthrie, an African-American anthropologist, believes that much of what she witnessed on St. Helena throughout her field research used to be a response to the experience of slavery when identity used to be derived from plantation residency relatively than from mother, father, or fatherland.

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