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Romans and Italians Writing History Romans and Italians Writing History
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Empire and Historiography in Republican Italy Empire and Historiography in Republican Italy
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Monumenta Monumenta
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Archaeology and/as History Archaeology and/as History
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Historical Culture Historical Culture
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The Structure and Scope of the Book The Structure and Scope of the Book
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Abstract
This chapter lays the groundwork for the book. Outside the field of ancient history, anthropologists have for several decades contemplated the idea that different cultures have their own forms of historical representation. These ideas are useful for the study of Italy, where scholarship to date has largely focused on history as it was practiced by Romans and Western Greeks. A broader understanding of “historical culture” presents an opportunity to connect the practices of those peoples with others across the Italian Peninsula. This concept also helps us bridge the longstanding but largely artificial academic divide between archaeology and history as two fields jointly interested in reconstructing past societies. This desire to talk about historical culture across media in fact finds good pedigree in ancient conceptions of monumenta in both Roman and non-Roman cultures as a term describing commemorative practices across different media. We thus confront the possibility of a “deep” or more temporally extensive study of history-making, one that follows human interests in their past backward into periods where evidence starts to look different but can be seen to speak to similar social practices. The chapter also argues that it is precisely this social aspect of historical culture that makes it preferable to the more labile and less useful concept of memory. After theorizing historical culture in these ways, the chapter lays out the structure of the book.
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