Exhuming loss : memory, materiality, and mass graves of the Spanish Civil War / Layla Renshaw.

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Renshaw, Layla

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritage.Publisher: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2011]Description: 1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781611320435
1611320437
1611320410
9781611320411
1611320429
9781611320428

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Exhuming loss.DDC classification:

946.06 946.081/1 946.0811

LOC classification:

DP269.5 .R46 2011

Other classification:

LAW041000 | SOC003000 | HIS045000

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Contents:

Republican identity and Spanish memory politics -- Memory idioms and the representation of Republican loss within the confines of a Francoist discourse on the past -- Materialisations of the dead before exhumation -- The open grave : exposed bodies and objects in new representations of the dead -- Reburial and enduring materialisations of the dead.

Summary: This book examines the contested representations of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in two small rural communities as they undergo the experience of exhumation, identification, and reburial from nearby mass graves. Based on interviews with relatives of the dead, community members and forensic archaeologists, it pays close attention to the role of excavated objects and images in breaking the pact of silence that surrounded the memory of these painful events for decades afterward. It also assesses the significance of archaeological and forensic practices in changing rela.

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This book examines the contested representations of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in two small rural communities as they undergo the experience of exhumation, identification, and reburial from nearby mass graves. Based on interviews with relatives of the dead, community members and forensic archaeologists, it pays close attention to the role of excavated objects and images in breaking the pact of silence that surrounded the memory of these painful events for decades afterward. It also assesses the significance of archaeological and forensic practices in changing rela.