Place As Memory
MAY 20, 2009 WEDNESDAY AT 3PM CT

 
 
They call it The Eternal City and you would think for that reason alone Rome would be resistant to change. But antiquity and modernity are on a collision course in some of Rome's oldest neighborhoods. Harvard anthropologist has made a study of it in his new book Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Rome.

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  • Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Anthropology and Curator of European Ethnology in the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, author of Evicted From Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome
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