Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods : Conversations in Theory and Method

by: Blakely, S. Daniels, M.

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Edited by Sandra Blakely and Megan Daniels

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.

Contributors: Sandra Blakely, Megan Daniels, R. Benjamin Gorham, Sebastian Heath, Kathryn A. Langenfeld, Jennifer Larson, Jacob Latham, Lindsey A. Mazurek, M. Willis Monroe, Sarah Murray, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Maggie L. Popkin, and Ian Rutherford.

About the Editors:

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.

Front Matter

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

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Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods : Conversations in Theory and Method

by: Blakely, S. Daniels, M.

• ISBN-13: 9781948488518 / 978-1-948488-51-8
• ISBN-03: 1948488515 / 1-948488-51-5
• Lockwood Press, Columbus, GA, 2023

Price: 89,00 EURO

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