Constructing Romanitas: Roman Public Architecture and the Archaeology of Practice

Social identity and the duality of structure in late Roman-period Britain

“…As might be expected, Giddens' theory of structuration has appeared in some of the work which constitutes the 'post-processual' phase of Roman studies (e.g. Grahame, 2000;Revell, 1999), though has not penetrated as deeply as in other areas of archaeology (e.g. Barrett, 1994Barrett, , 2001Dobres, 2000).…”

Power, Architecture and Community in the Distribution of Honorary Statues in Roman Public Space

“…While the study of fora has long enjoyed a privileged place in traditional archaeological research, a recent approach framed around Giddens's structuration theory has outlined the crucial importance of investigating daily routines within the civic spaces (Revell, 1999). In this analytical context honorary statues constitute privileged tools for the interpretation of practices of social display and their interaction with Roman public space.…”

Material Culture Patterns and Cultural Change in South-West Britain

“…Although these changes have often been taken simply as indicators of either Romanization or resistance to it (for discussions of this see, e.g. Alston 1996;Clarke 1996;Cooper 1996;Alcock 1997;Blake 1997;Clarke 1997;Hingley 1997;Matthews 1997;Mattingly 1997;Webster 1997;Whittaker 1997;Fincham 1998;Haussler 1999;Revell 1999), a clearer picture may be provided by the examination of lmique trajectories of individual regions and their relation to the wider contexts of province and Empire. Thus, a regional approach does not imply that patterns on the scale of the province or Empire are unimportant.…”