Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Preface.- Foreword.- Introduction.- Cognitive and Network Constraints in Real Life and Literature.- A Networks Approach to Mythological Epics.- Medieval Historical, Hagiographical and Biographical Networks.- Peopling of the New World from data on distributions of folklore motifs.- Phylogenetics Meets Folklore: Bioinformatic Approaches to the Study of International Folktales.- Analyses of a VirtualWorld.- Ghostscope: Conceptual Mapping of Supernatural Phenomena in a Large Folklore Corpus.- Complex Networks of Words in Fables.- Analysing and Restoring the Chronology of the Irish Annals.- Mapping Literate Networks in Early Medieval Ireland Quantitative Realities, Social Mythologies?.- How quantitative methods can shed light on a problem of comparative mythology: The myth of the struggle for supremacy between two groups of deities reconsidered.