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New approaches to urban sanitation, pollution, and propriety in Hispania and for the City of Rome - JOSEP ANTON REMOLÀ VALLVERDÚ and JESÚS ACERO PÉREZ (edd.), LA GESTIÓN DE LOS RESIDUOS URBANOS EN HISPANIA. Xavier Dupré Raventós (1956-2006) in memoriam (Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología LX; Instituto de Arqueología de Mérida 2011). Pp. 418, many figs. ISBN 978-84-00-09345-7. - MARK BRADLEY (ed.) with KENNETH STOW, ROME, POLLUTION, AND PROPRIETY: DIRT, DISEASE, AND HYGIENE IN THE ETERNAL CITY FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERNITY (British School at Rome Studies; Cambridge University Press 2012). Pp. xx + 320, ills. 34. ISBN 978-1-107-01443-5. $99.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2014

Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow  and
Steven E. Ostrow
Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
Affiliation:
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, [email protected]
Steven E. Ostrow
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, [email protected]
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Journal of Roman Archaeology , Volume 27 , 2014 , pp. 578 - 583
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1 Cf., e.g., Bouet, A., Les latrines dans les provinces gauloises, germaniques et alpines (Gallia Suppl. 59, 2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, reviewed by Koloski-Ostrow in JRA 23 (2010) 693–700 Google Scholar; and Jansen, G. C. M., Koloski-Ostrow, A. O. and Moormann, E. M. (edd), Roman toilets: their archaeology and cultural history (BABESCH Suppl., 2011)Google Scholar, reviewed by Heinz, W. in JRA 26 (2013) 723–26Google Scholar.

2 Raventós, X. Dupré, Un abocador del V d.C. en el Fòrum Provincial de Tàrraco (Tarragona 1989)Google Scholar; id. with J. A. Remolà Vallverdú (edd.), Sordes Urbis: la eliminación de residuos en la ciudad romana (Rome 2000).

3 These may be the sewer system today most visited in all of Spain; in part they are vividly on display in the bowels of the Museu d’Història of Barcelona at the Plaça del Rei.

4 For the sake of full transparency we note that Koloski-Ostrow has reviewed this volume previously (BMCR 2013.11.45), and she also delivered a paper in 2007 at the original venue from which the present publication takes its origins. a two-day conference organized by Bradley and Stow at the British School at Rome, with more than 100 attendees. The British anthropologist, Mary Douglas (cf. her Purity and danger: an analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo [London 1966 Google Scholar; repr. 2002 with added preface], whose core definition of pollution — or dirt — as “matter out of place” has been so influential to our understanding of how societies establish social order and cultural systems, was to have been the keynote speaker but sadly died one month before. As a result, the research presented both honored Douglas and provided an opportunity to test her ideas about the organization of space and the maintenance of social systems in multiple contexts. Some 28 papers were delivered there, but Bradley and Stow judiciously selected 14, adding a short final chapter, for the present book.

5 Miasma: pollution and purification in Early Greek religion (Oxford 1983)Google Scholar.

6 Cf. Panzram, S. (Hrsg.), Städte im Wandel. Bauliche Inszenierung und literarische Stilisierung lokaler Eliten auf der iberischen Halbinsel (Hamburg 2007)Google Scholar, reviewed by Kulikowski, M. at JRA 23 (2010) 678–80Google Scholar.