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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 afterwards. It also assesses the
significance of archaeological and forensic practices in changing
relationships between the living and the dead.
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 afterwards. It also assesses the
significance of archaeological and forensic practices in changing
relationships between the living and the dead.