Books by Alfredo González-Ruibal
Editorial Crítica, Barcelona, 2023
Este libro explora desde un punto de vista arqueológico las distintas formas de violencia colecti... more Este libro explora desde un punto de vista arqueológico las distintas formas de violencia colectiva que han existido desde los primeros cazadores-recolectores hasta la actualidad. El relato se construye a partir de las fosas comunes, los restos de los campos de batalla, los poblados arrasados y las fortificaciones y pone especial énfasis en los no combatientes y las víctimas olvidadas en todos los conflictos.
This book explores from an archaeological point of view the diverse forms of collective violence that have existed from the Palaeolithic to the present. The narrative is based on evidence provided by mass graves, remains of battlefields, razed settlements and fortifications and puts special emphasis on non-combatants and the forgotten victims of historical conflicts.
Routledge, 2020
First chapter of "The Archaeology of the Spanish Civil War". The book offers the first comprehens... more First chapter of "The Archaeology of the Spanish Civil War". The book offers the first comprehensive account of this conflict from an archaeological perspective, providing an alternative narrative on one of the most important conflicts of the twentieth century, widely seen as a prelude to the Second World War.
Between 1936 and 1939, totalitarianism and democracy, fascism and revolution clashed in Spain, while the latest military technologies were being tested, including strategic bombing and combined arms warfare, and violence against civilians became widespread. Archaeology, however, complicates the picture as it brings forgotten actors into play: obsolete weapons, vernacular architecture, ancient structures (from Iron Age hillforts to sheepfolds), peasant traditions, and makeshift arms. By looking at these things, another story of the war unfolds, one that pays more attention to intimate experiences and anonymous individuals. Archaeology also helps to clarify battles, which were often chaotic and only partially documented, and to understand better the patterns of political violence, whose effects were literally buried for over 70 years. The narrative starts with the coup against the Second Spanish Republic on 18 July 1936, follows the massacres and battles that marked the path of the war, and ends in the early 1950s, when the last forced labor camps were closed and the anti-Francoist guerrillas suppressed.
The book draws on 20 years of research to bring together perspectives from battlefield archaeology, archaeologies of internment, and forensics. It will be of interest to anybody interested in historical and contemporary archaeology, human rights violations, modern military history, and negative heritage
Routledge, 2019
An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era approaches the contemporary age, between the late nineteen... more An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era approaches the contemporary age, between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, as an archaeological period defined by specific material processes. It reflects on the theory and practice of the archaeology of the contemporary past from epistemological, political, ethical and aesthetic viewpoints, and characterises the present based on archaeological traces from the spatial, temporal and material excesses that define it. The materiality of our era, the book argues, and particularly its ruins and rubbish, reveals something profound, original and disturbing about humanity. This is the first attempt at describing the contemporary era from an archaeological point of view. Global in scope, the book brings together case studies from every continent and considers sources from peripheral and rarely considered traditions, meanwhile engaging in an interdisciplinary dialogue with philosophy, anthropology, history and geography. The document includes the table of contents and Chapter 1.
Alianza, Madrid, 2018
An introduction to archaeology (in Spanish), with particular emphasis on current research themes ... more An introduction to archaeology (in Spanish), with particular emphasis on current research themes and public archaeology. The document includes the table of contents, introduction and Chapter 1.
Una introducción a la arqueología (en español) que pone el énfasis en los temas de investigación recientes y en la arqueología pública. El documento incluye el índice, la introducción y el primer capítulo.
Alianza, Madrid, Jan 2016
The first archaeological account of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and its aftermath.
“Volver... more The first archaeological account of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and its aftermath.
“Volver a las trincheras” propone una visión radicalmente distinta de la Guerra Civil española y la inmediata posguerra. No porque llegue a conclusiones necesariamente diferentes a las de los historiadores, sino porque utiliza una materia prima inédita: latas, casquillos, trincheras y fosas. Estos son los documentos con los que se construyen las historias que aquí se narran. Unos documentos que no hablan solo de batallas y asesinatos, sino también de experiencias cotidianas: de terror, esperanza, amor y memoria. Se trata de las vidas (y muertes) de personas anónimas enfrentadas a circunstancias excepcionales. Este libro cuenta una historia de la guerra que nos llevará desde las trincheras de la Ciudad Universitaria en Madrid, en noviembre de 1936, hasta el destacamento penal de Bustarviejo, cerrado en 1952, muchos años después de que se escuchara el último tiro en los frentes.
Memoria final de la investigación histórica y arqueológica realizada en los destacamentos penales... more Memoria final de la investigación histórica y arqueológica realizada en los destacamentos penales de Cuelgamuros en 2021 en el marco del proyecto 205-MD-2020, financiado por la Secretaría de Estado de Memoria Democrática en la convocatoria de subvenciones en régimen de concurrencia competitiva destinadas a actividades relacionadas con la recuperación de la memoria democrática y las víctimas de la Guerra Civil y de la dictadura.
Staniewska A., Domańska E. (red.), Ekshumacje polityczne: teoria i praktyka, Gdańsk-Lubin: słowo/obraz terytoria, Muzeum Historyczne w Lubinie 2023. Dostępna w przedsprzedaży., 2023
Pierwsza w Polsce publikacja dotycząca ekshumacji politycznych, które zostały ukazane w perspekty... more Pierwsza w Polsce publikacja dotycząca ekshumacji politycznych, które zostały ukazane w perspektywie zarówno globalnej, jak i lokalnej, humanistycznej i przyrodniczej. Zebrane w książce artykuły oferują innowacyjne i panoramiczne ujęcie rozmaitych przypadków ekshumacji politycznych i praktyk odsłaniania grobów. Wiążą różne zdarzenia, ludzi i miejsca, a także teorie, metody i tendencje badawcze. Praca włącza się w dynamicznie rozwijające się w Polsce i na świecie studia nad martwym ciałem i szczątkami, badaniami grobów masowych i ekshumacji, które traktowane są jako wyznaczniki kondycji współczesnego świata i człowieka.
SPIS TREŚCI:
Alexandra Staniewska, Ewa Domańska, Ekshumacje polityczne jako zjawisko społeczne i wielodziedzinowe pole badań (s. 13)
CZĘŚĆ I – TEORIE, METODY, PODEJŚCIA BADAWCZE
– Élisabeth Anstett, Co to jest grób masowy? Ku antropologii postępowania ze szczątkami ludzkimi we współczesnych kontekstach zbrodni masowych (s. 65)
– Erin Jessee, Mark Skinner, Typologia grobów masowych i związanych z nimi miejsc (s. 82)
– Christopher J. Knüsel, John Robb, Tafonomia funeralna: przegląd celów i metod (s. 93)
– Leszek Majgier, Oimahmad Rahmonov, Nekrosole wybranych cmentarzy Krainy Wielkich Jezior Mazurskich (s. 157)
– Józef Żychowski, Przegląd wyników badań prowadzonych na świecie nad wpływem cmentarzy na chemizm wód podziemnych (s. 173)
– Zbigniew Kobyliński, Źródła archeologiczne czy święte kości przodków: kulturowe uwarunkowania traktowania szczątków ludzkich z wykopalisk (s. 198)
– Alfredo González‐Ruibal, Etyka archeologii (s. 225)
CZĘŚĆ II – PERSPEKTYWA GLOBALNA:
– Clyde Collins Snow, Przedmowa do książki Archeologia sądowa: perspektywa globalna (s. 253)
– Francisco Ferrándiz, Życia po życiu: społeczna autopsja ekshumacji grobów masowych w Hiszpanii (s. 266)
– Sarah Wagner, Problemy z niekompletnymi i przemieszanymi szczątkami:
porównanie zaginionych ze Srebrenicy i ofiar wojny koreańskiej (s. 292)
– Élisabeth Anstett, Szczątki ludzkie z Gułagu. Ujęcie antropologiczne (s. 316)
– Małgorzata Wosińska, Upamiętnianie ludzkich szczątków jako strategia emancypacyjna. Ludobójstwo w Rwandzie a Holokaust (s. 333)
– Dorothée Delacroix, Etnografia uciszanej przemocy. Ku antropologii życia pośmiertnego zamordowanych i zaginionych w Peru (s. 365)
– Anne Yvonne Guillou, Od kości-dowodów do duchów opiekuńczych. Status ciał po ludobójstwie Czerwonych Khmerów (s. 385)
CZĘŚĆ III – PERSPEKTYWA LOKALNA:
– Caroline Sturdy Colls, Archeologie Zagłady i badanie miejsc nazistowskich prześladowań (s. 403)
– Andrzej Kola, Zbrodnia katyńska w świetle prac archeologiczno- -ekshumacyjnych tajnych cmentarzysk NKWD w Charkowie (Piatichatki) i Kijowie (Bykownia) (s. 459)
– Krzysztof Persak, Ekshumacja, której (prawie) nie było. Prace archeologiczno-ekshumacyjne w Jedwabnem w 2001 roku i ich wyniki (s. 486)
– Milena Bykowska, Zdjęcia lotnicze i materiał DNA w procesie identyfikacji skazanych na karę śmierci i rozstrzelanych w Polsce w latach 1944–1956. Zarys problematyki (s. 516)
– Informacja o postępowaniu w sprawie katastrofy smoleńskiej (s. 531)
– Marcin Napiórkowski, Uroczystości żałobne jako narzędzie legitymizacji i delegitymizacji władzy (s. 535)
– Paweł Tomczok, Nekropatriotyzm Przemysława Dakowicza (s. 559)
– Przemysław Dakowicz, Rodowód, Brama Salariańska (s. 568)
– Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, mogił, zbierać (s. 569)
– Ewa Domańska, Nekrodziedzictwo (s. 572)
A short introduction to ethnoarchaeology with examples from all over the world. In Spanish.
Edited books by Alfredo González-Ruibal
Springer, 2015
This volume examines the distinctive and highly problematic ethical questions surrounding conflic... more This volume examines the distinctive and highly problematic ethical questions surrounding conflict archaeology. By bringing together sophisticated analyses and pertinent case studies from around the world it aims to address the problems facing archaeologists working in areas of violent conflict, past and present. Of all the contentious issues within archaeology and heritage, the study of conflict and work within conflict zones are undoubtedly the most highly charged and hotly debated, both within and outside the discipline. Ranging across the conflict zones of the world past and present, this book attempts to raise the level of these often fractious debates by locating them within ethical frameworks. The issues and debates in this book range across a range of ethical models, including deontological, teleological and virtue ethics. The chapters address real-world ethical conundrums that confront archaeologists in a diversity of countries, including Israel/Palestine, Iran, Uruguay, Argentina, Rwanda, Germany and Spain. They all have in common recent, traumatic experiences of war and dictatorship. The chapters provide carefully argued, thought-provoking analyses and examples that will be of real practical use to archaeologists in formulating and addressing ethical dilemmas in a confident and constructive manner.
Archaeology has been an important source of metaphors for some of the key intellectuals of the 20... more Archaeology has been an important source of metaphors for some of the key intellectuals of the 20th century: Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Alois Riegl and Michel Foucault, amongst many others. However, this power has also turned against archaeology, because the discipline has been dealt with perfunctorily as a mere provider of metaphors that other intellectuals have exploited. Scholars from different fields continue to explore areas in which archaeologists have been working for over two centuries, with little or no reference to the discipline. It seems that excavation, stratigraphy or ruins only become important at a trans-disciplinary level when people from outside archaeology pay attention to them and somehow dematerialize them. Meanwhile, archaeologists have been usually more interested in borrowing theories from other fields, rather than in developing the theoretical potential of the same concepts that other thinkers find so useful.
The time is ripe for archaeologists to address a wider audience and engage in theoretical debates from a position of equality, not of subalternity. Reclaiming Archaeology explores how archaeology can be useful to rethink modernity’s big issues, and more specifically late modernity (broadly understood as the 20th and 21st centuries). The book contains a series of original essays, not necessarily following the conventional academic rules of archaeological writing or thinking, allowing rhetoric to have its place in disclosing the archaeological. In each of the four sections that constitute this book (method, time, heritage and materiality), the contributors deal with different archaeological tropes, such as excavation, surface/depth, genealogy, ruins, fragments, repressed memories and traces. They criticize their modernist implications and rework them in creative ways, in order to show the power of archaeology not just to understand the past, but also the present.
Reclaiming Archaeology includes essays from a diverse array of archaeologists who have dealt in one way or another with modernity, including scholars from non-Anglophone countries who have approached the issue in original ways during recent years, as well as contributors from other fields who engage in a creative dialogue with archaeology and the work of archaeologists.
Papers by Alfredo González-Ruibal
"Cultural Heritage and the Future". Edited By Cornelius Holtorf & Anders Högberg, Routledge., 2020
In this chapter, I would like to examine folk art environments from the point of view of heritag... more In this chapter, I would like to examine folk art environments from the point of view of heritage. Folk environments are built spaces created by non-professional artists or architects, often peculiar characters living in the margins of society. To create such spaces, the artists make lavish use of recycled materials, including modern construction materials, broken artefacts, cheap decorations and objects in varying states of decay. Although there are several historical precedents, folk art environments seem to have developed mostly from the late 19th century onwards and can be considered, in many ways, a by-product of modernity, democratization and the industrial revolution. I argue that the logic of folk art environments has much to tell archaeologists and heritage practitioners about value, emotion and temporality, which are all fundamental principles in the production of heritage. They are are useful both for interrogating assumed concepts of past, present and future in heritage studies and for proposing novel and more imaginative ways of dealing with heritage.
El tiempo de las ruinas, editado por Cristóbal Gnecco y Mario Rufer. Uniandes/Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Bogotá, 2023
En este capítulo se ofrecen siete visiones, entre la arqueología y la literatura, de otros tantos... more En este capítulo se ofrecen siete visiones, entre la arqueología y la literatura, de otros tantos paisajes contemporáneos en ruinas de España, Etiopía, Somalilandia y Guinea Ecuatorial.
Geoforum, 2022
In this article, I intend to use archaeology's understanding of deep time and infrastructure to e... more In this article, I intend to use archaeology's understanding of deep time and infrastructure to explore the ways in which state-making has been challenged in the Horn of Africa during the last two millennia. I will take a longterm approach to state ecology and state resistance so as to eschew the presentist bias that is all too frequent in political analyses, particularly in Africa, and that prevents us from understanding some of the deep undercurrent that explain contemporary phenomena. The Horn is an ideal case for this kind of inquiry because it has some of the oldest state polities south of the Sahara; state trajectories in the region are non-linear and fraught with obstacles, though surprisingly persistent, and small-scale, stateless societies have proved to be extremely persistent, both in the periphery and at the heart of the state. Here I will explore three themes that are illustrative of the relationship between state-building, infrastructures and resistance in the borderlands of the Horn of Africa: the anti-infrastructural ethos of nomadic pastoralists; internal frontiers or zones of difference, and liminal ecologies, such as swamps and escarpments, which defy state control, technologies and imaginaries.
"La desaparición social. Límites y posibilidades de una herramienta para entender vidas que no cuentan". Editado por David Casado Neira, Gabriel Gatti, Ignacio Irazuzta, María Martínez González. Universidad del País Vasco. , 2021
Por definición, la arqueología estudia vidas abandonadas y muertes
descuidadas, al menos en un se... more Por definición, la arqueología estudia vidas abandonadas y muertes
descuidadas, al menos en un sentido literal. Una parte importante de esa
desaparición que documentamos los arqueólogos es no solo literal en el
sentido físico, sino también una desaparición social. Gente descontada,
que ha quedado fuera del relato histórico: campesinos, esclavos, coloniza-
dos, personas sin hogar, proletariado, etc. La historiografía descuidó a los
descuidados hasta los años 20 del pasado siglo, cuando la escuela de Annales comenzó a contar (narrar) y contabilizar a las masas desaparecidas (es significativo que la historia de los subalternos viniera de la mano de la historia cuantitativa). En arqueología los desaparecidos sociales siempre han estado presentes por una cuestión básica de representatividad en lo que denominamos el registro arqueológico —la suma de las cosas que quedan materialmente, enterradas O no, y que pueden ser documentadas—. Sin embargo, la preocupación por la desaparición social como problema es muy posterior a la de la historiografía, excepto en el caso de las arqueologías marxistas.
The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology, 2020
Northeast Africa is unique in the continent for its combination of a variety of external influenc... more Northeast Africa is unique in the continent for its combination of a variety of external influences (from the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean) and the unparalleled diversity of the local societies. Their members speak hundreds of different languages, practice all sorts of livelihoods (from hunting and gathering to intensive agriculture), and were organized until very recently under a diversity of political systems, from bands to empires. This complex scenario emerged in the first millennium BC and continues to this day. In this chapter, I will focus on the archaeology of the region from the fifteenth century to the present. Although the area is usually considered to comprise Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia, the first country will be left out of this review, as its historical trajectory is quite different to the rest of the countries that will be discussed here.
El expoliar se va a acabar: uso de detectores de metales y arqueología: sanciones administrativas y penales (I. Rodríguez Temiño, A. Yáñez, eds.), 2018
La discusión sobre el uso del detector de metales por aficionados tiende a polarizarse: por un la... more La discusión sobre el uso del detector de metales por aficionados tiende a polarizarse: por un lado nos encontramos con la postura de arqueólogos intransigentes para quienes el detectorista es un delincuente por definición, por otro la de detectoristas que consideran que tienen todo el derecho a practicar su hobby sin restricción alguna. La realidad, como siempre, se resiste a las dicotomías y esto resulta particularmente obvio en el caso de la Guerra Civil. Mi reflexión sobre este tema se basa en cerca de una década trabajando en arqueología de la guerra y la dictadura, a lo largo de la cual he tenido experiencias positivas y negativas con los usuarios del detector.
Networked spaces. The spatiality of networks in the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean, 2022
The coast of Somaliland was the scenario of intense interactions between merchants and local past... more The coast of Somaliland was the scenario of intense interactions between merchants and local pastoralists in Antiquity, as part of the Indian Ocean trade pattern. The site of Heis (Xiis in Somali) is a large necropolis, consisting of hundreds of cairns, on the coast of eastern Somaliland. It is known since the late 19th century for its remarkable evidence of trade
with the Roman Empire, but it has not been the object of systematic research until 2017. In this chapter, we present new data from surveys and excavations conducted during two field seasons, focusing on imported materials (pottery and glass), mainly from the Roman and Parthian empires and South Arabia, between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD. Imported materials represent 99% of all artefacts documented in survey and excavation. This research is part of an ongoing project on long-distance trade in Somaliland.
World Archaeology, 2019
All wars are traumatic and leave a deep imprint in the collective memory of a society, but few wa... more All wars are traumatic and leave a deep imprint in the collective memory of a society, but few wars are as traumatic as civil wars. They transform people, collectives and landscapes both deeply and extensively, and have shaped the course of human history. Yet they are also elusive to define – even for historians and political scientists – and have been the object of little theorization. In archaeology, external conflicts have attracted more interest, whereas civil wars have been mainly approached as yet another armed confrontation. Researchers have been looking at the archaeological remains of battlefields, fortifications, camps and mass graves and have provided important insights into a diversity of military aspects, both combat-related and logistical. From this perspective, archaeology is closer to military history than to the social sciences. Without forgetting the military side, contributors to this issue intend to address wider anthropological, historical and archaeological questions, such as the social experience of civil war, traumatic memory, political violence, gender identities and the relevance of landscape and material culture in shaping conflict.
Journal of Social Archaeology, 2022
Since 1945, most fascist monuments have disappeared or have been deactivated in Western Europe. T... more Since 1945, most fascist monuments have disappeared or have been deactivated in Western Europe. There is one in Spain, however, that remains fully operative: the Valley of the Fallen. The complex, devised by the dictator Francisco Franco, celebrates the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), keeps the bodies of thousands of victims of the conflict, as well as the leading fascist ideologue and the dictator himself, and provides a material narrative that exalts the dictatorship. With the advent of democracy in
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Books by Alfredo González-Ruibal
This book explores from an archaeological point of view the diverse forms of collective violence that have existed from the Palaeolithic to the present. The narrative is based on evidence provided by mass graves, remains of battlefields, razed settlements and fortifications and puts special emphasis on non-combatants and the forgotten victims of historical conflicts.
Between 1936 and 1939, totalitarianism and democracy, fascism and revolution clashed in Spain, while the latest military technologies were being tested, including strategic bombing and combined arms warfare, and violence against civilians became widespread. Archaeology, however, complicates the picture as it brings forgotten actors into play: obsolete weapons, vernacular architecture, ancient structures (from Iron Age hillforts to sheepfolds), peasant traditions, and makeshift arms. By looking at these things, another story of the war unfolds, one that pays more attention to intimate experiences and anonymous individuals. Archaeology also helps to clarify battles, which were often chaotic and only partially documented, and to understand better the patterns of political violence, whose effects were literally buried for over 70 years. The narrative starts with the coup against the Second Spanish Republic on 18 July 1936, follows the massacres and battles that marked the path of the war, and ends in the early 1950s, when the last forced labor camps were closed and the anti-Francoist guerrillas suppressed.
The book draws on 20 years of research to bring together perspectives from battlefield archaeology, archaeologies of internment, and forensics. It will be of interest to anybody interested in historical and contemporary archaeology, human rights violations, modern military history, and negative heritage
Una introducción a la arqueología (en español) que pone el énfasis en los temas de investigación recientes y en la arqueología pública. El documento incluye el índice, la introducción y el primer capítulo.
“Volver a las trincheras” propone una visión radicalmente distinta de la Guerra Civil española y la inmediata posguerra. No porque llegue a conclusiones necesariamente diferentes a las de los historiadores, sino porque utiliza una materia prima inédita: latas, casquillos, trincheras y fosas. Estos son los documentos con los que se construyen las historias que aquí se narran. Unos documentos que no hablan solo de batallas y asesinatos, sino también de experiencias cotidianas: de terror, esperanza, amor y memoria. Se trata de las vidas (y muertes) de personas anónimas enfrentadas a circunstancias excepcionales. Este libro cuenta una historia de la guerra que nos llevará desde las trincheras de la Ciudad Universitaria en Madrid, en noviembre de 1936, hasta el destacamento penal de Bustarviejo, cerrado en 1952, muchos años después de que se escuchara el último tiro en los frentes.
SPIS TREŚCI:
Alexandra Staniewska, Ewa Domańska, Ekshumacje polityczne jako zjawisko społeczne i wielodziedzinowe pole badań (s. 13)
CZĘŚĆ I – TEORIE, METODY, PODEJŚCIA BADAWCZE
– Élisabeth Anstett, Co to jest grób masowy? Ku antropologii postępowania ze szczątkami ludzkimi we współczesnych kontekstach zbrodni masowych (s. 65)
– Erin Jessee, Mark Skinner, Typologia grobów masowych i związanych z nimi miejsc (s. 82)
– Christopher J. Knüsel, John Robb, Tafonomia funeralna: przegląd celów i metod (s. 93)
– Leszek Majgier, Oimahmad Rahmonov, Nekrosole wybranych cmentarzy Krainy Wielkich Jezior Mazurskich (s. 157)
– Józef Żychowski, Przegląd wyników badań prowadzonych na świecie nad wpływem cmentarzy na chemizm wód podziemnych (s. 173)
– Zbigniew Kobyliński, Źródła archeologiczne czy święte kości przodków: kulturowe uwarunkowania traktowania szczątków ludzkich z wykopalisk (s. 198)
– Alfredo González‐Ruibal, Etyka archeologii (s. 225)
CZĘŚĆ II – PERSPEKTYWA GLOBALNA:
– Clyde Collins Snow, Przedmowa do książki Archeologia sądowa: perspektywa globalna (s. 253)
– Francisco Ferrándiz, Życia po życiu: społeczna autopsja ekshumacji grobów masowych w Hiszpanii (s. 266)
– Sarah Wagner, Problemy z niekompletnymi i przemieszanymi szczątkami:
porównanie zaginionych ze Srebrenicy i ofiar wojny koreańskiej (s. 292)
– Élisabeth Anstett, Szczątki ludzkie z Gułagu. Ujęcie antropologiczne (s. 316)
– Małgorzata Wosińska, Upamiętnianie ludzkich szczątków jako strategia emancypacyjna. Ludobójstwo w Rwandzie a Holokaust (s. 333)
– Dorothée Delacroix, Etnografia uciszanej przemocy. Ku antropologii życia pośmiertnego zamordowanych i zaginionych w Peru (s. 365)
– Anne Yvonne Guillou, Od kości-dowodów do duchów opiekuńczych. Status ciał po ludobójstwie Czerwonych Khmerów (s. 385)
CZĘŚĆ III – PERSPEKTYWA LOKALNA:
– Caroline Sturdy Colls, Archeologie Zagłady i badanie miejsc nazistowskich prześladowań (s. 403)
– Andrzej Kola, Zbrodnia katyńska w świetle prac archeologiczno- -ekshumacyjnych tajnych cmentarzysk NKWD w Charkowie (Piatichatki) i Kijowie (Bykownia) (s. 459)
– Krzysztof Persak, Ekshumacja, której (prawie) nie było. Prace archeologiczno-ekshumacyjne w Jedwabnem w 2001 roku i ich wyniki (s. 486)
– Milena Bykowska, Zdjęcia lotnicze i materiał DNA w procesie identyfikacji skazanych na karę śmierci i rozstrzelanych w Polsce w latach 1944–1956. Zarys problematyki (s. 516)
– Informacja o postępowaniu w sprawie katastrofy smoleńskiej (s. 531)
– Marcin Napiórkowski, Uroczystości żałobne jako narzędzie legitymizacji i delegitymizacji władzy (s. 535)
– Paweł Tomczok, Nekropatriotyzm Przemysława Dakowicza (s. 559)
– Przemysław Dakowicz, Rodowód, Brama Salariańska (s. 568)
– Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, mogił, zbierać (s. 569)
– Ewa Domańska, Nekrodziedzictwo (s. 572)
Edited books by Alfredo González-Ruibal
The time is ripe for archaeologists to address a wider audience and engage in theoretical debates from a position of equality, not of subalternity. Reclaiming Archaeology explores how archaeology can be useful to rethink modernity’s big issues, and more specifically late modernity (broadly understood as the 20th and 21st centuries). The book contains a series of original essays, not necessarily following the conventional academic rules of archaeological writing or thinking, allowing rhetoric to have its place in disclosing the archaeological. In each of the four sections that constitute this book (method, time, heritage and materiality), the contributors deal with different archaeological tropes, such as excavation, surface/depth, genealogy, ruins, fragments, repressed memories and traces. They criticize their modernist implications and rework them in creative ways, in order to show the power of archaeology not just to understand the past, but also the present.
Reclaiming Archaeology includes essays from a diverse array of archaeologists who have dealt in one way or another with modernity, including scholars from non-Anglophone countries who have approached the issue in original ways during recent years, as well as contributors from other fields who engage in a creative dialogue with archaeology and the work of archaeologists.
Papers by Alfredo González-Ruibal
descuidadas, al menos en un sentido literal. Una parte importante de esa
desaparición que documentamos los arqueólogos es no solo literal en el
sentido físico, sino también una desaparición social. Gente descontada,
que ha quedado fuera del relato histórico: campesinos, esclavos, coloniza-
dos, personas sin hogar, proletariado, etc. La historiografía descuidó a los
descuidados hasta los años 20 del pasado siglo, cuando la escuela de Annales comenzó a contar (narrar) y contabilizar a las masas desaparecidas (es significativo que la historia de los subalternos viniera de la mano de la historia cuantitativa). En arqueología los desaparecidos sociales siempre han estado presentes por una cuestión básica de representatividad en lo que denominamos el registro arqueológico —la suma de las cosas que quedan materialmente, enterradas O no, y que pueden ser documentadas—. Sin embargo, la preocupación por la desaparición social como problema es muy posterior a la de la historiografía, excepto en el caso de las arqueologías marxistas.
with the Roman Empire, but it has not been the object of systematic research until 2017. In this chapter, we present new data from surveys and excavations conducted during two field seasons, focusing on imported materials (pottery and glass), mainly from the Roman and Parthian empires and South Arabia, between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD. Imported materials represent 99% of all artefacts documented in survey and excavation. This research is part of an ongoing project on long-distance trade in Somaliland.
This book explores from an archaeological point of view the diverse forms of collective violence that have existed from the Palaeolithic to the present. The narrative is based on evidence provided by mass graves, remains of battlefields, razed settlements and fortifications and puts special emphasis on non-combatants and the forgotten victims of historical conflicts.
Between 1936 and 1939, totalitarianism and democracy, fascism and revolution clashed in Spain, while the latest military technologies were being tested, including strategic bombing and combined arms warfare, and violence against civilians became widespread. Archaeology, however, complicates the picture as it brings forgotten actors into play: obsolete weapons, vernacular architecture, ancient structures (from Iron Age hillforts to sheepfolds), peasant traditions, and makeshift arms. By looking at these things, another story of the war unfolds, one that pays more attention to intimate experiences and anonymous individuals. Archaeology also helps to clarify battles, which were often chaotic and only partially documented, and to understand better the patterns of political violence, whose effects were literally buried for over 70 years. The narrative starts with the coup against the Second Spanish Republic on 18 July 1936, follows the massacres and battles that marked the path of the war, and ends in the early 1950s, when the last forced labor camps were closed and the anti-Francoist guerrillas suppressed.
The book draws on 20 years of research to bring together perspectives from battlefield archaeology, archaeologies of internment, and forensics. It will be of interest to anybody interested in historical and contemporary archaeology, human rights violations, modern military history, and negative heritage
Una introducción a la arqueología (en español) que pone el énfasis en los temas de investigación recientes y en la arqueología pública. El documento incluye el índice, la introducción y el primer capítulo.
“Volver a las trincheras” propone una visión radicalmente distinta de la Guerra Civil española y la inmediata posguerra. No porque llegue a conclusiones necesariamente diferentes a las de los historiadores, sino porque utiliza una materia prima inédita: latas, casquillos, trincheras y fosas. Estos son los documentos con los que se construyen las historias que aquí se narran. Unos documentos que no hablan solo de batallas y asesinatos, sino también de experiencias cotidianas: de terror, esperanza, amor y memoria. Se trata de las vidas (y muertes) de personas anónimas enfrentadas a circunstancias excepcionales. Este libro cuenta una historia de la guerra que nos llevará desde las trincheras de la Ciudad Universitaria en Madrid, en noviembre de 1936, hasta el destacamento penal de Bustarviejo, cerrado en 1952, muchos años después de que se escuchara el último tiro en los frentes.
SPIS TREŚCI:
Alexandra Staniewska, Ewa Domańska, Ekshumacje polityczne jako zjawisko społeczne i wielodziedzinowe pole badań (s. 13)
CZĘŚĆ I – TEORIE, METODY, PODEJŚCIA BADAWCZE
– Élisabeth Anstett, Co to jest grób masowy? Ku antropologii postępowania ze szczątkami ludzkimi we współczesnych kontekstach zbrodni masowych (s. 65)
– Erin Jessee, Mark Skinner, Typologia grobów masowych i związanych z nimi miejsc (s. 82)
– Christopher J. Knüsel, John Robb, Tafonomia funeralna: przegląd celów i metod (s. 93)
– Leszek Majgier, Oimahmad Rahmonov, Nekrosole wybranych cmentarzy Krainy Wielkich Jezior Mazurskich (s. 157)
– Józef Żychowski, Przegląd wyników badań prowadzonych na świecie nad wpływem cmentarzy na chemizm wód podziemnych (s. 173)
– Zbigniew Kobyliński, Źródła archeologiczne czy święte kości przodków: kulturowe uwarunkowania traktowania szczątków ludzkich z wykopalisk (s. 198)
– Alfredo González‐Ruibal, Etyka archeologii (s. 225)
CZĘŚĆ II – PERSPEKTYWA GLOBALNA:
– Clyde Collins Snow, Przedmowa do książki Archeologia sądowa: perspektywa globalna (s. 253)
– Francisco Ferrándiz, Życia po życiu: społeczna autopsja ekshumacji grobów masowych w Hiszpanii (s. 266)
– Sarah Wagner, Problemy z niekompletnymi i przemieszanymi szczątkami:
porównanie zaginionych ze Srebrenicy i ofiar wojny koreańskiej (s. 292)
– Élisabeth Anstett, Szczątki ludzkie z Gułagu. Ujęcie antropologiczne (s. 316)
– Małgorzata Wosińska, Upamiętnianie ludzkich szczątków jako strategia emancypacyjna. Ludobójstwo w Rwandzie a Holokaust (s. 333)
– Dorothée Delacroix, Etnografia uciszanej przemocy. Ku antropologii życia pośmiertnego zamordowanych i zaginionych w Peru (s. 365)
– Anne Yvonne Guillou, Od kości-dowodów do duchów opiekuńczych. Status ciał po ludobójstwie Czerwonych Khmerów (s. 385)
CZĘŚĆ III – PERSPEKTYWA LOKALNA:
– Caroline Sturdy Colls, Archeologie Zagłady i badanie miejsc nazistowskich prześladowań (s. 403)
– Andrzej Kola, Zbrodnia katyńska w świetle prac archeologiczno- -ekshumacyjnych tajnych cmentarzysk NKWD w Charkowie (Piatichatki) i Kijowie (Bykownia) (s. 459)
– Krzysztof Persak, Ekshumacja, której (prawie) nie było. Prace archeologiczno-ekshumacyjne w Jedwabnem w 2001 roku i ich wyniki (s. 486)
– Milena Bykowska, Zdjęcia lotnicze i materiał DNA w procesie identyfikacji skazanych na karę śmierci i rozstrzelanych w Polsce w latach 1944–1956. Zarys problematyki (s. 516)
– Informacja o postępowaniu w sprawie katastrofy smoleńskiej (s. 531)
– Marcin Napiórkowski, Uroczystości żałobne jako narzędzie legitymizacji i delegitymizacji władzy (s. 535)
– Paweł Tomczok, Nekropatriotyzm Przemysława Dakowicza (s. 559)
– Przemysław Dakowicz, Rodowód, Brama Salariańska (s. 568)
– Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, mogił, zbierać (s. 569)
– Ewa Domańska, Nekrodziedzictwo (s. 572)
The time is ripe for archaeologists to address a wider audience and engage in theoretical debates from a position of equality, not of subalternity. Reclaiming Archaeology explores how archaeology can be useful to rethink modernity’s big issues, and more specifically late modernity (broadly understood as the 20th and 21st centuries). The book contains a series of original essays, not necessarily following the conventional academic rules of archaeological writing or thinking, allowing rhetoric to have its place in disclosing the archaeological. In each of the four sections that constitute this book (method, time, heritage and materiality), the contributors deal with different archaeological tropes, such as excavation, surface/depth, genealogy, ruins, fragments, repressed memories and traces. They criticize their modernist implications and rework them in creative ways, in order to show the power of archaeology not just to understand the past, but also the present.
Reclaiming Archaeology includes essays from a diverse array of archaeologists who have dealt in one way or another with modernity, including scholars from non-Anglophone countries who have approached the issue in original ways during recent years, as well as contributors from other fields who engage in a creative dialogue with archaeology and the work of archaeologists.
descuidadas, al menos en un sentido literal. Una parte importante de esa
desaparición que documentamos los arqueólogos es no solo literal en el
sentido físico, sino también una desaparición social. Gente descontada,
que ha quedado fuera del relato histórico: campesinos, esclavos, coloniza-
dos, personas sin hogar, proletariado, etc. La historiografía descuidó a los
descuidados hasta los años 20 del pasado siglo, cuando la escuela de Annales comenzó a contar (narrar) y contabilizar a las masas desaparecidas (es significativo que la historia de los subalternos viniera de la mano de la historia cuantitativa). En arqueología los desaparecidos sociales siempre han estado presentes por una cuestión básica de representatividad en lo que denominamos el registro arqueológico —la suma de las cosas que quedan materialmente, enterradas O no, y que pueden ser documentadas—. Sin embargo, la preocupación por la desaparición social como problema es muy posterior a la de la historiografía, excepto en el caso de las arqueologías marxistas.
with the Roman Empire, but it has not been the object of systematic research until 2017. In this chapter, we present new data from surveys and excavations conducted during two field seasons, focusing on imported materials (pottery and glass), mainly from the Roman and Parthian empires and South Arabia, between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD. Imported materials represent 99% of all artefacts documented in survey and excavation. This research is part of an ongoing project on long-distance trade in Somaliland.
La critique de l'archéologie dans une perspective autochtone et postcoloniale a été largement acceptée, du moins en théorie, dans de nombreuses colonies de colons, du Canada à la Nouvelle-Zélande. Dans le présent texte, j'aimerais développer cette critique de deux façons : d'une part, je soulignerai certaines questions qui n'ont pas été résolues ; d'autre part, j'aborderai les expériences autochtones et coloniales qui sont différentes de celles des colonies de colons britanniques, qui ont façonné massivement notre compréhension de l'indigénéité et de la relation entre l'archéologie et celle-ci. Je m'intéresse particulièrement à deux problèmes clés : l'altérité-comment les archéologues conçoivent la différence-et la collaboration-comment les archéologues imaginent leur relation avec des personnes d'un autre milieu culturel. Mes réflexions sont basées sur mes expériences personnelles de travail avec des communautés d'Europe du Sud, d'Afrique subsaharienne et d'Amérique du Sud qui diffèrent sensiblement de celles que l'on retrouve habituellement dans les archéologies autochtones.
Co-organizers: Alicia Jiménez ([email protected]) y Alfredo González-
Ruibal ([email protected])
Archaeology leans heavily on typologies and similarities. Narratives about
cultural change, the spreading of ideas and diasporas are often linked to things that
look alike but belong to different chronological or geographical frames.
Material connections between “centers” and “peripheries” are commonly traced by
looking at provincial copies of models irradiated from the metropolis. And yet, despite
the longstanding tradition of typological studies and analysis of the meaning of style
variation (Wiessner, Sackett, Conkey & Hastorf), the role of imagines, simulacra and
replicas in the transmission of culture is still relatively ill-defined from a theoretical point
of view in archaeological research.
The papers in this session will explore theoretical approaches to an
archaeology of the double and ask questions that help us to go beyond the original
model/fake copy dilemma. By interrogating the materiality of the replica we hope to be
able to analyze the vision/double as essence and not only as a vacuous instance of
representation.
Session format: Series of papers followed by Q&A and final comments by a
discussant.
We particularly welcome papers focusing on:
• The politics of double vision: vision as power / the anti-authoritarian gaze.
• The double as translation and interpretation.
• The double as a purposely inaccurate copy, a partial representation (pars pro
toto) or as means of taking the alien within.
• The double as failure and the impossibility of an exact replica.
• The influence of the double or the consequences of “double vision” for the
“model”.
• Replicas that make possible the vision of something that is immaterial or
absent.
• The role of the double in our understanding of things by means of visualization.
• The importance of replication in constructing pasts (ancestor representation)
and futures (material projections of visions).
• The relationship between cloning and social reproduction as well as the
relationship between homogeneous material culture and individuation.
To submit a paper abstract (max 300 words) please email the session organizers by
March 8. Session organizers are responsible for selecting papers, and for sending the
complete session roster along with all paper abstracts and titles to the TAG-Chicago
committee by March 15, 2013.