Exhuming loss : memory, materiality, and mass graves of the Spanish Civil War / Layla Renshaw.
Material type: 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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- online resource
- 9781611320435
- 1611320437
- 1611320410
- 9781611320411
- 1611320429
- 9781611320428
- Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Atrocities
- War victims -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
- Mass burials -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
- Human remains (Archaeology) -- Spain
- Forensic archaeology -- Spain
- Exhumation -- Social aspects -- Spain
- Collective memory -- Spain
- Victimes de guerre -- Espagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Sépultures collectives -- Espagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Restes humains (Archéologie) -- Espagne
- Archéologie judiciaire -- Espagne
- Exhumation -- Aspect social -- Espagne
- Mémoire collective -- Espagne
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal
- Atrocities
- Collective memory
- Forensic archaeology
- Human remains (Archaeology)
- Mass burials
- War victims
- Spain
- Spanish Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939)
- 1900-1999
- 946.06 946.081/1 946.0811
- DP269.5 .R46 2011
- LAW041000 | SOC003000 | HIS045000
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and index.
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.
English.
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