{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.jamaican-maroons","code":"thing-q6127426","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q6127426/","name":"Jamaican Maroons","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"thing","plane":"SOC","domain":["SOC.PER"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"Jamaican Maroons are historically distinct African-descended communities formed through escape from enslavement and resistance to colonial rule in Jamaica, whose descendants maintain community identities, institutions and cultural traditions.","purpose":"Enable an agent to recognise Jamaican Maroons as historically rooted, living communities, assess community-specific evidence and continuity, and determine whose authority is needed for engagement.","scope":{"in":["Community identities and relationships within the Jamaican Maroon collective","Histories of freedom-making, resistance, settlement and displacement","Community-specific governance, representation and treaty interpretations","Connections to ancestral settlements, occupied lands and diaspora communities","Cultural transmission, heritage stewardship and permissions for engagement"],"out":["Maroon peoples elsewhere except their documented relationships to Jamaican Maroons","The Jamaican population or African diaspora as a whole","Individual biographies and personal genealogical records","Standalone models of treaties, wars, settlements and land parcels","Complete descriptions of languages, ceremonies or religious systems","Jamaican state institutions and general national law"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["The referent is a historical and living collective connected to Jamaican Maroon communities, rather than an occupation suggested by the batch context.","A proposed community connection requires attributed historical or community evidence; Jamaican nationality, African ancestry or residence near a Maroon settlement alone does not establish membership.","The collective contains differentiated communities: Windward and Leeward groupings must not be treated as one settlement or governing body. [National Library of Jamaica](https://www.nlj.gov.jm/history-notes/The%20Maroons%20edited%20final.htm)","A claim about one treaty party must identify that party before being applied elsewhere; the historical agreements had distinct community coverage. [National Library of Jamaica](https://www.nlj.gov.jm/history-notes/The%20Maroons%20edited%20final.htm)","Moore Town heritage recognition identifies a particular heritage element, rather than defining membership or representation for all Jamaican Maroons. [UNESCO](https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/maroon-heritage-of-moore-town-00053)"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"community-identity-and-boundaries","name":"Community identity and boundaries","description":"Represent Jamaican Maroons as a collective with distinct constituent communities and multiple forms of affiliation.","layers":[{"id":"collective-and-community-names","name":"Collective and community names","description":"Locate each name at the collective, community or settlement level.","findings":[{"id":"named-community-referent","name":"Named community referent","description":"Establish which people a name denotes and whether its meaning changes across historical and contemporary sources.","questions":[{"text":"Does this reference mean Jamaican Maroons collectively, a particular community, or the physical settlement associated with it?","id":"named-community-referent-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which community account supports the preferred name and its relationship to Windward, Leeward or other descriptions?","id":"named-community-referent-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"affiliation-and-recognition","name":"Affiliation and recognition","description":"Distinguish descent, self-identification, residence and community acknowledgement.","findings":[{"id":"community-specific-affiliation","name":"Community-specific affiliation","description":"Record affiliation criteria as attributed community practices rather than agent-imposed ancestry tests.","questions":[{"text":"How does the relevant community describe membership and acknowledge descendants living elsewhere?","id":"community-specific-affiliation-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which distinctions must be retained between residents, self-identified descendants and acknowledged members?","id":"community-specific-affiliation-q02","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What inclusion rule, date and geographic coverage underlie any reported population count?","id":"community-specific-affiliation-q03","kind":"measurement"}]}]}]},{"id":"historical-formation-and-memory","name":"Historical formation and memory","description":"Connect community formation, resistance and subsequent change to attributed historical accounts.","layers":[{"id":"freedom-and-community-formation","name":"Freedom and community formation","description":"Investigate how particular communities formed and maintained freedom under colonial conditions.","findings":[{"id":"formation-trajectories","name":"Formation trajectories","description":"Establish community-specific accounts of origins, settlement and resistance without imposing one founding story.","questions":[{"text":"What do community histories and documentary sources each say about the formation of this Maroon community?","id":"formation-trajectories-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which events mark continuity, merger, dispersal or re-establishment rather than the founding of a wholly new collective?","id":"formation-trajectories-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"oral-and-archival-accounts","name":"Oral and archival accounts","description":"Keep the provenance and purposes of oral traditions, colonial records and later interpretations visible.","findings":[{"id":"contested-historical-narratives","name":"Contested historical narratives","description":"Preserve disagreements about chronology, leadership and conduct rather than silently selecting one account.","questions":[{"text":"Where do accounts of the Maroon Wars or community leaders disagree, and who produced each account?","id":"contested-historical-narratives-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"How should descriptions of resistance, treaty obligations and relationships with enslaved people be attributed to particular actors and periods?","id":"contested-historical-narratives-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"territory-settlement-and-diaspora","name":"Territory, settlement and diaspora","description":"Represent relationships among communities, ancestral places, present land use and connections beyond Jamaica.","layers":[{"id":"ancestral-and-present-lands","name":"Ancestral and present lands","description":"Separate historical settlement geography from current occupation, customary use and territorial assertions.","findings":[{"id":"place-and-land-relationships","name":"Place and land relationships","description":"Identify the type, extent and evidence of each community connection to land.","questions":[{"text":"Which places are identified as ancestral settlements, present community lands, customary use areas or commemorative sites?","id":"place-and-land-relationships-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which maps, instruments and community accounts support each boundary, and where do their extents differ?","id":"place-and-land-relationships-q02","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What area is being reported, in hectares or acres, and does it measure a grant, occupation or a contemporary claim?","id":"place-and-land-relationships-q03","kind":"measurement"}]}]},{"id":"displacement-and-diaspora-connections","name":"Displacement and diaspora connections","description":"Investigate movement and continuing community relationships without automatically absorbing other Maroon peoples.","findings":[{"id":"continuity-across-movement","name":"Continuity across movement","description":"Determine how displacement, migration and subsequent relationships affect the scope of Jamaican Maroon affiliation.","questions":[{"text":"Which records and descendant accounts establish connections between a Jamaican community and a population outside Jamaica?","id":"continuity-across-movement-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Does the population describe itself as part of Jamaican Maroons, a related descendant community or a separate collective?","id":"continuity-across-movement-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"treaties-governance-and-representation","name":"Treaties, governance and representation","description":"Separate historical agreements, contemporary interpretations and community-specific authority.","layers":[{"id":"treaty-parties-and-interpretations","name":"Treaty parties and interpretations","description":"Associate treaty propositions with identifiable instruments, parties, periods and interpreters.","findings":[{"id":"instrument-specific-claims","name":"Instrument-specific claims","description":"Establish what a historical text says and separately investigate claims about its present effect.","questions":[{"text":"Which treaty or related instrument is invoked, and which named parties and communities does its text concern?","id":"instrument-specific-claims-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which present interpretations come from community authorities, the Jamaican state or judicial decisions, and where do they disagree?","id":"instrument-specific-claims-q02","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Does the evidence support applying this proposition to one community, several communities or Jamaican Maroons collectively?","id":"instrument-specific-claims-q03","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"community-offices-and-mandates","name":"Community offices and mandates","description":"Identify locally recognised decision-making arrangements and their limits.","findings":[{"id":"authorised-community-representation","name":"Authorised community representation","description":"Determine who may speak, negotiate or grant permission for the particular community and activity.","questions":[{"text":"How is the relevant leader, council or other representative selected, and what dated evidence establishes their mandate?","id":"authorised-community-representation-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Who can authorise this proposed activity, and does it require additional agreement from landholders or cultural custodians?","id":"authorised-community-representation-q02","kind":"action"},{"text":"Are competing claims to representation unresolved for the community or subject concerned?","id":"authorised-community-representation-q03","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"cultural-continuity-and-engagement","name":"Cultural continuity and engagement","description":"Assess locally identified heritage, its transmission and the conditions governing outside involvement.","layers":[{"id":"practices-and-transmission","name":"Practices and transmission","description":"Identify which community maintains a practice and how knowledge reaches subsequent generations.","findings":[{"id":"community-specific-cultural-continuity","name":"Community-specific cultural continuity","description":"Investigate Kromanti-related traditions and other locally identified practices without generalising one community's heritage to every Maroon community.","questions":[{"text":"Which practices and language traditions does this community identify as its own, and which are shared or differentiated?","id":"community-specific-cultural-continuity-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"How do custodians assess teaching, participation and continuity, and what changes do they consider significant?","id":"community-specific-cultural-continuity-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]},{"id":"heritage-permissions-and-priorities","name":"Heritage permissions and priorities","description":"Connect visits, research, recordings and safeguarding work to local authority and intended benefits.","findings":[{"id":"permitted-cultural-engagement","name":"Permitted cultural engagement","description":"Determine what outsiders may access or reuse, recognising that public performance does not itself establish permission for all subsequent uses.","questions":[{"text":"Which custodians can permit attendance, recording, translation or publication of the material concerned?","id":"permitted-cultural-engagement-q01","kind":"action"},{"text":"What restrictions, attribution requirements, review arrangements or benefit-sharing conditions accompany that permission?","id":"permitted-cultural-engagement-q02","kind":"action"},{"text":"Which community-defined safeguarding priority would the proposed project advance, and how will the community assess the result?","id":"permitted-cultural-engagement-q03","kind":"measurement"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Jamaican Maroons this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-kinds","name":"Kinds and varieties","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Jamaican Maroons this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-kinds-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation","name":"Standards and regulation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Jamaican Maroons this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Jamaican Maroons this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Jamaican Maroons this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-regional-variation","name":"Regional variation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Jamaican Maroons this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-regional-variation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-neighbours","name":"Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Jamaican Maroons this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe the history, communities and treaties of the Jamaican Maroons, citing community and archival sources.","Use the names and accounts that Maroon communities use themselves."],"mustNot":["Describe Maroons only through colonial records that call them rebels or runaways.","Share sacred practices, sites or knowledge without community consent.","Misrepresent treaty rights or land claims.","Present Maroon heritage as a tourist product without community involvement."],"requiresHuman":["Publishing material on land rights or treaty disputes."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Maroon history is one of resistance to slavery and deserves faithful telling.","Land and autonomy rights are still at stake."],"affectedParties":["Maroon communities","Descendants of enslaved people"]},"owners":{"steward":"The Maroon communities and their councils.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q6127476","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.jamaican-maroons","Wikidata: Q6127426 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6127426)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["Community affiliation: Named community; self-described connection; community acknowledgement; source and date","Historical grouping: Windward; Leeward; another attributed description; disputed; unknown","Territorial relationship: Ancestral settlement; current residence; customary use; documented title; claimed territory; commemorative connection","Representative mandate: Community, office or body, selection basis, authorised subject, effective dates and any contestation","Treaty relationship: Named instrument, parties, provisions, historical application and separately attributed present interpretation","Population estimate: Persons, with reference year, geographic coverage, membership definition and estimation method","Cultural transmission condition: Community-assessed continuity, teaching arrangements, participation trends, pressures and assessment date","Knowledge access conditions: Public; permission required; community restricted; conditions unresolved"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":[]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["Disambiguate references to the collective, a named community, a settlement or an individual representative.","Compare historical accounts while retaining community attribution, chronology and disagreement.","Trace treaty and territorial assertions to their documents, interpreters and affected communities.","Identify the community representatives and custodians relevant to a proposed visit, interview or heritage project.","Assess cultural transmission needs using community-defined evidence and priorities.","Determine whether proposed recording, publication or reuse is covered by documented permission."]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Treating distinct communities as interchangeable can misrepresent their histories and undermine community authority.","Recording or commercializing restricted cultural knowledge without community authorization can violate cultural protocols and damage trust.","Inferring community membership from appearance or ancestry alone can cause discriminatory classification and misidentification."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization lists the Maroon heritage of Moore Town on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, a designation specific to that heritage."]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Jamaican Maroon communities are encountered in Jamaican history, contemporary community governance, land relations and cultural heritage.","Research, visits and cultural projects require attention to the particular community involved and its own representatives and protocols."]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q6127426: Jamaican Maroons","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6127426","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Jamaican Maroons","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_Maroons","note":"general description of the item"}],"openQuestions":["Which contemporary and diaspora communities should be represented within this registry entry, based on their own accounts and documented relationships?","How do affiliation criteria and population estimates differ among communities, and what data can be recorded with their agreement?","What present legal effects of particular historical agreements are established, claimed or contested, and by which authorities?","Which territorial boundaries and representation mandates remain disputed or insufficiently documented?","Which cultural knowledge is restricted, who holds authority over its use, and what transmission priorities do the respective communities identify?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q6127426/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 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cannot be reliably determined from physical appearance, clothing or other visual cues."},"score":1.0}}