Traces of the Past: Working with Archaeology as Ethnographic Object (original) (raw)

This is a short article based on the presentation given at the Work in Progress Postgraduate Symposium in March 2013 at Goldsmiths University of London. The paper examines exhumation practice and archaeological work in the Spanish post-transitional scenario, drawing on the fieldwork carried out in 2011-2012 on several mass graves containing the bodies of Republican defeated during the Spanish Civil War. Concretely, this brief ethnographic piece focuses on the specific experience in the village of Castuera (Extremadura, Spain), where excavation work took place in the summer of 2011.