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Exhuming Loss

Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War
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Exhuming Loss explores the complex legacies of the Spanish Civil War through the delicate process of exhuming, identifying, and reburying victims from mass graves in rural communities. Drawing on interviews with relatives, locals, and forensic experts, it reveals how unearthed objects and images challenge long-held silences and reshape how Spain confronts its traumatic history.
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Ideal for readers interested in Spanish history, forensic archaeology, and the social impacts of war memory.

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This book examines the contested representations of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in rural communities as they undergo the experience of exhumation, identification and reburial from nearby mass graves.

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Exhuming Loss 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, the book 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 Spainโ€™s traumatic past.

Series: UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781611320428

Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 August 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 260

About the Author

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.

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