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Platt, David Stuart.

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A cultural studies approach to Roman public libraries: Social negotiation, changing spaces, and euergetism.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A cultural studies approach to Roman public libraries: Social negotiation, changing spaces, and euergetism./
Author:	Platt, David Stuart.
Description:	340 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1847.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Archaeology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3313642
ISBN:	9780549624806

A cultural studies approach to Roman public libraries: Social negotiation, changing spaces, and euergetism.
Platt, David Stuart.

A cultural studies approach to Roman public libraries: Social negotiation, changing spaces, and euergetism. - 340 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1847.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2008.

For more than a hundred years, the fragmentary evidence for Roman public libraries has meant that we know relatively little about the role that these buildings played in Roman society, in contrast to more thoroughly documented and archaeologically investigated buildings such as houses and bathing complexes. This dissertation explores Roman public libraries by applying ideas from the British tradition of cultural studies (specifically, that associated with the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, with roots in Antonio Gramsci's work), architectural theory, and anthropological theories of gifting. To connect these, the study locates the library buildings within a "circuit of culture"---a framework that articulates several different socio-cultural processes (production, representation, identity, consumption, regulation) in which all artifacts are situated.

ISBN: 9780549624806Subjects--Topical Terms:

622985
Anthropology, Archaeology.

A cultural studies approach to Roman public libraries: Social negotiation, changing spaces, and euergetism.
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520 $a For more than a hundred years, the fragmentary evidence for Roman public libraries has meant that we know relatively little about the role that these buildings played in Roman society, in contrast to more thoroughly documented and archaeologically investigated buildings such as houses and bathing complexes. This dissertation explores Roman public libraries by applying ideas from the British tradition of cultural studies (specifically, that associated with the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, with roots in Antonio Gramsci's work), architectural theory, and anthropological theories of gifting. To connect these, the study locates the library buildings within a "circuit of culture"---a framework that articulates several different socio-cultural processes (production, representation, identity, consumption, regulation) in which all artifacts are situated.
520 $a Chapter One sets out the problem of Roman public libraries, the principal theoretical underpinnings of the study's approach, and the sample. Chapter Two outlines the ways in which donors negotiated the insertion of their gifts into the cityscape, by the physical and symbolic articulation of library buildings with other building types and by argument in the chambers of local councils. Chapter Three explores what happened after these buildings opened: the impact that they had on citizens' (and non-citizens') experience of the city visually and materially, and the ways in which the buildings organized movement and activity around them. The chapter then discusses how subsequent donors considered (or not) these libraries in their civic gifts. Chapters Four and Five discuss recent work on the nature of elite literary reading events and relate this to decorative elements in and around the building. In addition, they consider the impact of the buildings' "permeability" on the character of these reading events, and suggest that the apparently easy access to the buildings' interiors actually served to increase social distance between those with access to elite literary culture and those without. Finally, Chapter Six evaluates the costs and gains for library building donors, placing emphasis on the role that civic gifts played in the formation and production of urban communities, and linking these to the processes that created aristocratic wealth (agricultural, mercantile, or other) through the transformative act of gift prestation.
520 $a The study demonstrates that it is only when we consider library buildings from multiple perspectives that we can understand the full impact of the work they did in Roman cityscapes. In doing so, it reveals that the buildings were part of a continuous negotiation among a city's community of aristocratic gift-givers about the character of cities, public life, and elite communities.
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