Resumen : Las exhumaciones de fosas comunes de la Guerra Civil han sido uno de los temas más delicados y controvertidos de la primera década del siglo XXI en España. El pasado bajo tierra propone una autopsia social del impacto de la apertura de fosas comunes en la sociedad española contemporánea. No es por lo tanto un ensayo sobre el pasado, para el que existe una historiografía muy extensa, sino más bien sobre las múltiples repercusiones contemporáneas de estas excavaciones. Se basa en un trabajo de campo etnográfico multisituado de más de diez años en diversos escenarios de investigación: exhumaciones de fosas comunes, laboratorios forenses, reinhumaciones, actos conmemorativos, asambleas y actividades de diversas asociaciones, archivos, medios de comunicación, procesos judiciales, presentaciones de libros, inauguración de exposiciones, obras de teatro, o conferencias académicas, entre otros.

Editorial: Anthropos Editorial.
Ciudad: Barcelona
ISBN: 978-84-15260-79-0
Páginas: 331

Recursos relacionados con el libro:

• Metodología de investigación del libro: Etnografías de respuesta rápida (Canal UNED)
• Entrevista sobre el libro en Contratiempo (Radio Círculo), a partir del min. 8.
• Reseña del libro en eldiario.es
• Público.es – Artículo “La apertura de las fosas del franquismo ha desestabilizado el relato de la Transición“
• Entrevista a Francisco Ferrándiz en Diario DEIA. Noticias de Bizkaia (14 de diciembre de 2014)

Abstract: Nineteenth-century highland Madagascar was a place inhabited by the dead as much as the living. Ghosts, ancestors, and the possessed were important historical actors alongside local kings and queens, soldiers, traders, and missionaries. This book considers the challenges that such actors pose for historical accounts of the past and for thinking about questions of presence and representation. How were the dead made present, and how were they recognized or not? In attending to these multifarious encounters of the nineteenth century, how might we reflect on the ways in which our own history-writing makes the dead present? To tackle these questions, Zoë Crossland tells an anthropological history of highland Madagascar from a perspective rooted in archaeology and Peircean semiotics, as well as in landscape study, oral history, and textual sources.
Editorial: Cambridge University Press

Abstract: : The fall of the United Nations “safe area” of Srebrenica in July 1995 to Bosnian Serb and Serbian forces stands out as the international community’s most egregious failure to intervene during the Bosnian war. It led to genocide, forced displacement, and a legacy of loss. But wartime inaction has since spurred numerous postwar attempts to address the atrocities’ effects on Bosnian society and its diaspora. Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide reveals how interactions between local, national, and international interventions – from refugee return and resettlement to commemorations, war crimes trials, immigration proceedings, and election reform – have led to subtle, positive effects of social repair, despite persistent attempts at denial. Using an interdisciplinary approach, diverse research methods, and more than a decade of fieldwork in five countries, Lara J. Nettelfield and Sarah E. Wagner trace the genocide’s reverberations in Bosnia and abroad. The findings of this study have implications for research on post-conflict societies around the world.
Editorial: Cambridge University Press.