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Exhuming Loss: Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War (UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series)
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... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Rite, Flesh, and Stone: The Matter of Death in Contemporary Spanish Culture (Hispanic Issues)
by Elizabeth Scarlett • William Viestenz • Layla Renshaw • N. Michelle Murray • Eugenia Afinoguénova • Pedro Aguilera-Mellado • Ana Fernández-Cebrián • Patty Keller • Ángel Loureiro • Cristina Moreiras-Menor • Annabel Martín • Jordi Moreras • Sol TarrésForensic science provides information and data behind the circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that provides death with meaning. With this in mind, Rite, Flesh, and Stone proposes cultural matters of death as its structuring principle, operating as frames of the expression of morta... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021