Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods

Sandra Blakely

ISBN 10: 1948488515 / ISBN 13: 9781948488518

Published by Lockwood Press, US, 2023

About this Item

The studies in this volume share a focus on religion in the ancient Mediterranean world: how ritual, myth, spectatorship, and travel reflect the continual interaction of human beings with the richly fictive beings who defined the boundaries of groups, access to the past, and mobility across land and seascapes. They share as well the methodological exploration of the intersection between human sciences, the integration of numerous disciplines around the study of all aspects of human life from the biological to the cultural, and the study of the past. In so doing, they continue a long dialogue that engages with critical models derived from specializations within history, philology, archaeology, sociology, and anthropology, and addresses, increasingly, the potentialities and pitfalls of quantitative and digital analyses. Many of the threads in this long conversation inform these chapters: the comparative project, human social evolution, disciplinary reflexivity, religion as an embedded, functional, and structural system, and the role for agency, networks, and materiality.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods
• Publisher: Lockwood Press, US
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1948488515
• ISBN 13: 9781948488518
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.88W x 3.18H x 22.86D centimeters 15.88 centimeters width by 3.18 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 185 grams

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Synopsis

The studies in this volume share a focus on religion in the ancient Mediterranean world: How ritual, myth, spectatorship, and travel reflect the continual interaction of human beings with the richly fictive beings who defined the boundaries of groups, access to the past, and mobility across land and seascapes. They share as well the methodological exploration of the intersection between human sciencesthe integration of numerous disciplines around the study of all aspects of human life from the biological to the culturaland the study of the past. In so doing, they continue a long dialogue that engages with critical models derived from specializations within history, philology, archaeology, sociology, and anthropology, and addresses, increasingly, the potentialities and pitfalls of quantitative and digital analyses. Many of the threads in this long conversation inform these chapters: the comparative project, human social evolution, disciplinary reflexivity, religion as an embedded, functional, and structural system, and the role for agency, networks, and materiality.

About the Author

Sandra Blakely is associate professor of Classics at Emory University. Megan Daniels is assistant professor of ancient Greek material culture at the University of British Columbia.