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

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Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, 2011.

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Description	1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations.
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Series	Critical cultural heritage series
	Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritage.
Summary	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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and index.
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.
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Subject	Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Atrocities.
	War victims -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
	War victims.
	Spain.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	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.
	Social aspects.
	Collective memory -- Spain.
	Collective memory.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Renshaw, Layla. Exhuming loss. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2011 9781611320411 (DLC) 2011006965 (OCoLC)687675980
ISBN	9781611320435 (electronic book)
	1611320437 (electronic book)
	1611320410 (hardback)
	9781611320411 (hardback)
	1611320429 (paperback)
	9781611320428 (paperback)
	1611320437
	9781611320411 (hardback)
	9781611320428 (paperback)
Standard No.	40019859081

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

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