Exhuming Loss

Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Archaeology, Crimes & Criminals, Criminology
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Author: Layla Renshaw ISBN: 9781315428673
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: June 16, 2016
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Layla Renshaw
ISBN: 9781315428673
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: June 16, 2016
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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