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“Exhuming the Familial Body” explores a second ethnographic study that serves as a comparative case to that presented in the previous chapter. Aragüete-Toribio recounts the exhumation experience in Puebla de Alcocer, where those buried in mass graves were well known to the village community, and where firsthand and inherited accounts about the executions had been extensively shared, in private domains, among neighbours. “Exhuming the Familial Body” examines a different interaction, marked by the powerful presence of testimonies and life histories entangled with the killings and its negotiation with scientific methods and abstractions. The author concludes that in such context narratives gain an authoritative capacity to inscribe the identity of those killed and the history of the execution in the collective imagination of the village community.
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Aragüete-Toribio, Z. (2017). Exhuming Familial Remains. In: Producing History in Spanish Civil War Exhumations. World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61270-6_5
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