Exhuming loss
Subtitle: memory, materiality and mass graves of the Spanish Civil War
By: Layla Renshaw
Series: Critical cultural heritage series
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781611320411; 9781611320428
Subjects: Collective memory; Exhumation; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology; Human remains (Archaeology); Forensic archaeology; War victims; Atrocities; LAW / Forensic Science; HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal; Mass burials; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Republican identity and Spanish memory politics; title: Memory idioms and the representation of Republican loss within the confines of a Francoist discourse on the past; title: Materialisations of the dead before exhumation; title: The open grave : exposed bodies and objects in new representations of the dead; title: Reburial and enduring materialisations of the dead.