Format:
Online-Ressource (259 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781611320411
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9781611320428
Series Statement:
Critical cultural heritage series
Content:
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 rela
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Republican identity and Spanish memory politicsMemory 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.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781611320435
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781611320411
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Exhuming Loss : Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War
Language:
English
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