Main Exhuming Loss: Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War

Exhuming Loss: Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War

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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 relationships between the living and dead. The exposure of graves has opened up a discursive space in Spanish society for multiple representations to be made of the war dead and of Spain’s traumatic past.
Request Code : ZLIBIO3703542
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Year:
2011
Publisher:
Left Coast Press
Language:
English
Pages:
261
ISBN 10:
1611320429
ISBN 13:
9781611320428
ISBN:
9781611320428,1611320429

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