In its origins as a concept, wealth in people depended on the circulation and accumulation of rights and obligations among and over the living. But if a person is a source of wealth, what happens when the person dies? Would the person be excised from the relationships upon which wealth in people depends, or might his or her wealth remain accessible to the living? To address this question, we present the case of Oberlin Cemetery in Raleigh, North Carolina. The cemetery was the core of Oberlin Village, a freedperson's African American community founded in the mid‐nineteenth century. Today, development threatens historic resources surrounding the cemetery, but a community organization founded by descendants and neighbors has emerged to preserve and promote their heritage. We are a group of anthropologists, geologists, and historians who live and work near Oberlin Village and who collaborate to help this organization achieve its goals. Here we report how our efforts to document the cemetery's history have bolstered their advocacy and validated their claims to wealth in the people buried there. Thus we show how wealth in people extends to the dead when graves and the people within them are potent sources of value for the living.

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人们的财富和北卡罗来纳州罗利市历史悠久的Oberlin公墓的价值

人民的财富从其概念的起源就取决于生活中和生活中权利和义务的流通和积累。但是，如果一个人是财富的来源，那么当他去世时会发生什么呢？会不会从人的财富所依赖的关系中摘除这个人，或者他或她的财富仍可为生活所用？为了解决这个问题，我们介绍了北卡罗来纳州罗利的奥伯林公墓的情况。该公墓是奥伯林村（Oberlin Village）的核心，奥伯林村是一个自由人的非裔美国人社区，成立于19世纪中叶。如今，发展威胁着该墓地的历史资源，但是由后裔和邻居建立的社区组织已经出现，以保护和促进他们的遗产。我们是人类学家，地质学家，以及在Oberlin村附近生活和工作的历史学家，并合作帮助该组织实现其目标。在这里，我们报告了我们为记录公墓的历史所做的努力如何增强了他们的主张，并验证了他们对埋葬在那里的人们的财富主张。因此，我们展示了当坟墓和其中的人民是生活的重要价值来源时，人的财富如何延伸到死者。