Cultural bonanzas and commercial barbarism. On the memory of the bombing of Guernica and other cultural ‘assets’. Kepa Fernández de Larrinoa and Daniel Rementeria Arruza. 2022

This essay deals with cultural heritage and historical memory. It examines various museological, memorial and commemorative practices linked to the transmission of traumatic historical knowledge. Taken together, these constitute cultural heritage established with the aim of expressing collective emotions and suffering that have been repressed and condemned to silence due to their association with the socio-political imagination of those who were defeated in the so-called Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939. However, it may be the case that, at the same time, these very cultural representations of military atrocities against defenceless civilians—now classified as historical memory—form part of other collective systems of cultural representation.

This is why, in this work, we examine the cultural policies of historical memory.

To answer this, we have analysed the case of Gernika and delved into the realm of cultural, artistic and historical representations and re-enactments promoted by local civil associations working towards the restoration and safeguarding of historical memory—associations flying a political banner that reads Truth, justice, reparation.

INDICE

INTRODUCCIÓN.
NOTAS PARA UNA CRÍTICA ETNOGRÁFICA DEL NEOLIBERALISMO CULTURAL PROGRESISTA VASCO

A. EL ENCUENTRO DEL PATRIMONIO CULTURAL CON LA MEMORIA HISTÓRICA
1. MUSEOS, SEPULCROS, DICTADORES Y SEPULTURAS: LA «SOBREVIVENCIA DEMOCRÁTICA» DEL FASCISMO
2. VIAJES CULTURALES ILUSTRADOS Y BARBARISMOS MERCANTILES: MUSEOGRAFÍAS E HISTORIOGRAMAS PLANOS DE LA MODERNIDAD OCCIDENTAL

B. LA FÁBULA DEL PATRIMONIO CULTURAL INMATERIAL
3. ANATOMÍA LOCUTIVA DEL PATRIMONIO CULTURAL INMATERIAL
4. CRÍTICA ANTROPOLÓGICA DEL PATRIMONIO CULTURAL INMATERIAL
5. MEMORIA HISTÓRICA Y PRESENTE ETNOGRÁFICO

C. MEMORIA Y EVOCACIÓN DEL BOMBARDEO DE GERNIKA
6. CULTURAS DE PAZ Y TURISMOS DE MEMORIA
7. GERNIKA MONUMENTAL Y ESCULTÓRICO: MARCAS EN EL ESPACIO E ITINERARIOS (MEMORIA Y COSIFICACIÓN)
8. PERFORMATIVIDAD EN EL ESPACIO PÚBLICO E ITINERARIOS DE LA MEMORIA (REPRESENTACIONES ARTÍSTICAS, RECORRIDOS Y SONIDOS)
9. FICCIONES NO LITERARIAS DE LA MEMORIA FAMILIAR E HISTÓRICA (MARIMETA Y LA FOTOGRAFÍA DE RAMONA MADARIAGA)

D. REFLEXIÓN FINAL
10. LAS CULTURAS LOCALES Y EL APEGO POSMODERNO A LA DISTRACCIÓN CULTURAL
11. RECAPITULACIÓN

LISTA DE IMÁGENES
BIBLIOGRAFÍA Y FUENTES
NOTAS DE TEXTO

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Authors

Kepa Fernández de Larrinoa (Bilbao, 1958). Ethnographer specialising in ritual behaviour and collective cultural representations. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics (University of London) and a Master of Arts in Symbolic Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario (Canada). He is currently affiliated with Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He is also director of ethnographic research at Lera-Ikergunea, a workshop-studio based in Iruñea dedicated to socio-cultural action research. In recent years, Lera-Ikergunea has focused on examining the memory legacy of state-sponsored criminal violence, as well as its systems of representation.

Daniel Rementeria Arruza (Gernika, 1967). Sociocultural anthropologist, holder of a DEA from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). His research has focused on the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve (Bizkaia) and on the analysis of cultural and representational processes relating to intangible cultural heritage, the cultural construction of the landscape, tourism and sustainable local development in protected rural areas. He has published a number of research articles.

Editorial coordination: Mercedes Esteban.

Design and layout: eMeriel.

Cover illustration: goikipedia.

© Authors, 2022
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ISBN: 978-84-09-47270-3

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