Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods Conversations in Theory and Method
Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods Conversations in Theory and Method by Sandra Blakely, published by Lockwood Press in 2023, offers a comprehensive examination of religion in the ancient Mediterranean world. This 342-page volume delves into how ritual, myth, spectatorship, and travel illustrate the interactions between humans and the fictive beings that shaped group identities and historical access. The book emphasizes a methodological exploration that integrates various disciplines, reflecting on the complexities of human life from biological to cultural perspectives.
Readers will find a rich dialogue that engages with critical models from history, philology, archaeology, sociology, and anthropology. The chapters address the potentialities and pitfalls of quantitative and digital analyses while exploring themes such as human social evolution, disciplinary reflexivity, and the embedded nature of religion as a functional and structural system. This edition invites a nuanced understanding of the interplay between ancient practices and contemporary methodologies, making it a significant contribution to the fields of archaeology and social science.
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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.
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