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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457350403321

Autore

Renshaw Layla

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-42868-7

1-315-42869-5

1-61132-043-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

Critical cultural heritage series

Disciplina

946.081/1

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939 Atrocities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2011 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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