TY - BOOK AU - Nakoinz,Oliver TI - Mediterranean connections : how the sea links people and transforms identities SN - 9789464270693 U1 - 9 CY - Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2023 N1 - Oliver Nakoinz is a lecturer at Kiel University N2 - The present publication constitutes the Proceedings of Session 7 of the 'Creation of landscapes VI' workshop, hosted by the CAU Kiel in 2019. The session was entitled 'Mediterranean Connections - how the sea links people and transforms identities'. With our focus on the linkage of people, this volume can be understood as a contribution to recent network research. But network research, especially when employed in the humanities, is often looked at with scepticism, not to say mistrust: Isn't this just a game with numbers? Does it really relate to the type of data we are used to in our research, to poems, sherds or seal impressions? Can it say anything at all about... life ? In fact, the various articles of this volume are not restricted to the strict technical approach of classical network research ER -