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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Renshaw, Layla, author.

Series:

Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritage.

Critical cultural heritage series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War victims--Spain--History--20th century.

War victims.

Mass burials--Spain--History--20th century.

Mass burials.

Human remains (Archaeology)--Spain.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Forensic archaeology--Spain.

Forensic archaeology.

Exhumation--Social aspects--Spain.

Exhumation.

Collective memory--Spain.

Collective memory.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Atrocities.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines the contested representations of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930's 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

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.

Notes:

First published 2011 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-315-42867-9

1-315-42868-7

1-315-42869-5

1-61132-043-7

9781315428697

OCLC:

749265084