Spain’s Valley of the Fallen, Where Human Remains Disappear: A Funerary Monument for a Dictator

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Journal of Contemporary Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-05-12 DOI:10.1558/JCA.41462

Laia Gallego-Vila, Queralt Solé i Barjau

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Abstract

This paper reflects on the Franco dictatorship's ideological use of the bodies of Spanish Civil War dead at the Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen) monument near Madrid. It examines how from 1958 onwards human remains were exhumed from cemeteries and mass graves across Spain and reinterred at the site, and it argues that, much like the setting and architecture of the memorial complex itself, they were used politically to make a distinction in Spain's national memory between the war's winners and losers. This served as the foundation for the necropolitical legitimacy of the Franco regime.

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西班牙的堕落谷，人类遗骸消失的地方:独裁者的葬礼纪念碑

本文反思了佛朗哥独裁政权在意识形态上使用马德里附近的Valle de los Caidos（堕落谷）纪念碑上的西班牙内战死者尸体。它研究了从1958年起，人类遗骸是如何从西班牙各地的墓地和乱葬坑中挖掘出来并重新安置在该遗址的，并认为，与纪念建筑群本身的背景和建筑非常相似，它们在政治上被用来在西班牙的国家记忆中区分战争的胜利者和失败者。这是佛朗哥政权死气沉沉的政治合法性的基础。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Contemporary Archaeology is the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to explore archaeology’s specific contribution to understanding the present and recent past. It is concerned both with archaeologies of the contemporary world, defined temporally as belonging to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as well as with reflections on the socio-political implications of doing archaeology in the contemporary world. In addition to its focus on archaeology, JCA encourages articles from a range of adjacent disciplines which consider recent and contemporary material-cultural entanglements, including anthropology, art history, cultural studies, design studies, heritage studies, history, human geography, media studies, museum studies, psychology, science and technology studies and sociology. Acknowledging the key place which photography and digital media have come to occupy within this emerging subfield, JCA includes a regular photo essay feature and provides space for the publication of interactive, web-only content on its website.