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Author_Layla Renshaw
Burgos Province
campanas
Casa Del Pueblo
Casas Viejas
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Ceramic Brackets
collective memory studies
Collective Reburial
Contemporary Spanish Politics
Dead Man
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exhumation
Exhumation Process
forensic archaeology
Francoist Discourse
Francoist Rhetoric
Grave Edge
graves
human
Human Remains
las
Las Campanas
mass
Mass Grave Exhumation
material culture analysis
memory
Portrait Photographs
post-conflict reconciliation
process
qualitative interviews
Reburial Ceremony
remains
republican
Republican Dead
Republican Families
Scientific Identification Process
Seccion Femenina
Spanish Civil War grave exhumation
Spanish historical trauma
Town Hall
Wearer's Feet
Wearer’s Feet
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781611320428
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2011
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Layla Renshaw is a senior lecturer in the School of Life Sciences at Kingston University, UK, where she teaches forensic archaeology and anthropology. She received her PhD in anthropology from University College London. Her research interests include postconflict investigations and representations of the traumatic past, the political and theoretical significance of forensic archaeology, and its representation in the media.
