Anthropology at the foot of the grave. Dialogue with Francisco Etxeberria and Francisco Ferrándiz on the memory of the Spanish Civil War

Abstract

The direct intervention in the exhumation of mass graves from the Spanish Civil War is joined by a broader reflection on memory and what has been termed the recovery of historical memory. This dialogue is a unique chance to observe how social and cultural anthropology and physical anthropology unite and complement each other – two disciplines that have taken divergent routes in Spain, a delicate and complex subject where the processes of memory revolve around the dramatic events of 1936.