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Exhuming loss : memory, materiality, and mass graves of the Spanish Civil War /
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 me...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Walnut Creek, Calif. :
Left Coast Press,
[2011]
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| Colección: | Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritage.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611320435 1611320437 1611320410 9781611320411 1611320429 9781611320428 |