Exhuming the defeated: Civil War mass graves in 21st-century Spain

American Ethnologist

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 38-54

  Ferrándiz, Francisco ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Exhumations; Human rights; Mass graves; Memory; Postconflict; Spanish Civil War; Transitional justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873416012     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/amet.12004     Document Type: Article

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