Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods
Conversations in Theory and Method
Published on 31. March 2023
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-1-948488-51-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Atlanta
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
757 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-948488-51-8 (9781948488518)
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Persons
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.
Megan Daniels is assistant professor of ancient Greek material culture at the University of British Columbia.
Content
Introduction. New Sciences and Old Gods: A Brief History of the Human Sciences and Ancient Religion (Sandra Blakely, Megan Daniels)
Ritualizing Relations in Early Iron Age Greece: Feasting in Extraurban Sanctuaries (Megan Daniels)
Harnessing the Gods: Big Gods Theory and Moral Supervision in the Greek World (Jennifer Larson)
Festival Souvenirs from Roman Cologne: Connectivity, Memory, and Conceptions of Time (Maggie Popkin)
Roman Strategies of Ritualization and the Performance of the Pompa Circensis (Jacob Latham)
Nearness and Experience in a Network of Roman Amphitheaters (Sebastian Heath)
Reflexivity and Digital Praxis: Reconstructing Ostia's Social Networks (Lindsey A. Mazurek, Kathryn A. Langenfeld, R. Benjamin Gorham)
The Landscape of Early Greek Religion: GIS , Big Data, and the Complexity of the Archaeological Record (Sarah Murray)
Quantifying Thick Descriptions with the Database of Religious History (M. Willis Monroe)
The Reign of Janus: Signs, Data Science, and Image Worlds in Third- Century BCE Italy (Dan-el Padilla Peralta)
Agency, Affect, Games, and Gods: Archaeogaming and the Archaeology of Religion (Sandra Blakely)
Epilogue. Ancient Religion and Modern Science: A Coevolution (Ian Rutherford)
Indexes
Ritualizing Relations in Early Iron Age Greece: Feasting in Extraurban Sanctuaries (Megan Daniels)
Harnessing the Gods: Big Gods Theory and Moral Supervision in the Greek World (Jennifer Larson)
Festival Souvenirs from Roman Cologne: Connectivity, Memory, and Conceptions of Time (Maggie Popkin)
Roman Strategies of Ritualization and the Performance of the Pompa Circensis (Jacob Latham)
Nearness and Experience in a Network of Roman Amphitheaters (Sebastian Heath)
Reflexivity and Digital Praxis: Reconstructing Ostia's Social Networks (Lindsey A. Mazurek, Kathryn A. Langenfeld, R. Benjamin Gorham)
The Landscape of Early Greek Religion: GIS , Big Data, and the Complexity of the Archaeological Record (Sarah Murray)
Quantifying Thick Descriptions with the Database of Religious History (M. Willis Monroe)
The Reign of Janus: Signs, Data Science, and Image Worlds in Third- Century BCE Italy (Dan-el Padilla Peralta)
Agency, Affect, Games, and Gods: Archaeogaming and the Archaeology of Religion (Sandra Blakely)
Epilogue. Ancient Religion and Modern Science: A Coevolution (Ian Rutherford)
Indexes