Prestigious spaces: from the aristocratic townhouse to the romanian/gypsy palace, passing the beautiful room of the peasant

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  • François Ruegg l'Institut d'Anthropologie Sociale de l'Université de Fribourg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2236672537523

Keywords:

Occupation of the built environment, Social imaginary, Social prestige, Imitation, Gentrification

Abstract

In the era of spare space, especially in urban areas, we tend to think that all our fellow beings seek to occupy space with maximum rationality and economy. The phenomenon of private renting of one’s own space only further affirms this impression. But at the same time, with the democratization of secondary residence, with temporary or permanent migration, the number of unoccupied houses is raising. Based upon the example of the often unfinished and uninhabited so-called “Gypsy palaces” in Rumania, we intend to trace here the meanings and the antecedents of this ostentatious prodigal practice, as well in the aristocratic houses as in the farm houses.

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Published

2019-03-30

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Ruegg, F. (2019). Prestigious spaces: from the aristocratic townhouse to the romanian/gypsy palace, passing the beautiful room of the peasant. Século XXI: Journal of Social Sciences, 8(3), 823–850. https://doi.org/10.5902/2236672537523

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Vol. 8 No. 3 (2018): Special Issue: Dossier The House: Displacements, Temporalities and Habitabilities.

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