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- Title
Uncomfortable Memories and Non-Heritages: The Archaeology of Counter-Revolution and the Carlist Wars in the Basque Country.
- Authors
Tejerizo-García, Carlos; Quirós Castillo, Juan Antonio
- Abstract
The development of historical archaeology in the Iberian Peninsula has opened new and stimulating avenues of research into its most recent times. One of these has been the archaeology of the Carlist Wars, a series of nineteenth-century conflicts related to the overarching process of the emergence of liberal governments in Europe and, contemporarily, of counter-revolutionary movements. This paper will describe recent excavations at Carlist sites in the southern part of the Basque Country in order to tackle two interrelated questions: the limits and possibilities of a Carlist archaeology and the close connection of the specific materialities of these events and the politics of memory surrounding them. It is argued that the Carlist War materiality has not been considered in the process of the construction of the Basque heritage because these conflicts are not introduced into the legitimating narratives of the failed-state formation project of the Basque identity.
- Subjects
PAIS Vasco (Spain); IBERIAN Peninsula; HISTORICAL archaeology; ARCHAEOLOGY; MEMORY
- Publication
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2023, Vol 27, Issue 3, p598
- ISSN
1092-7697
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10761-022-00665-4