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Spectacular Antiquity: An examination of the psychological exploitation of extraordinary human specimens in Ancient Rome Gardner, Chelsea

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[This presentation provides an overview of the following website described below: https://spectacularantiquity.wordpress.com/] This website is an attempt to present traditional, academic research in a non-traditional way. The focus of the research is the human body as a “spectacle” in and of itself, and the psychological aspects involved in exploiting individual persons for visual display in ancient Rome. The study focuses on the abnormal human body, and situations where the human form was regarded as “spectacular” due to its unusual physical properties. The collected data is presented on this website in such a way that is intentionally an alternative to traditional academic writing and publishing; instead, I have endeavoured to create an open, searchable, online venue where my research could be made accessible to anyone who has the desire to see it.

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Title	Spectacular Antiquity: An examination of the psychological exploitation of extraordinary human specimens in Ancient Rome
Creator	Gardner, Chelsea
Date Issued	2013-03-23
Description	[This presentation provides an overview of the following website described below: https://spectacularantiquity.wordpress.com/] This website is an attempt to present traditional, academic research in a non-traditional way. The focus of the research is the human body as a “spectacle” in and of itself, and the psychological aspects involved in exploiting individual persons for visual display in ancient Rome. The study focuses on the abnormal human body, and situations where the human form was regarded as “spectacular” due to its unusual physical properties. The collected data is presented on this website in such a way that is intentionally an alternative to traditional academic writing and publishing; instead, I have endeavoured to create an open, searchable, online venue where my research could be made accessible to anyone who has the desire to see it.
Subject	Classical antiquity; Ancient Rome; Human exploitation; Freakshows
Genre	Presentation
Type	Text; Still Image
Language	eng; Other
Series	University of British Columbia. CNRS 503D
Date Available	2015-03-31
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada
DOI	10.14288/1.0075866
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52569
Affiliation	Arts, Faculty of; Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, Department of
Campus	UBCV
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Graduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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