Being, Humanity, and Understanding
Studies in Ancient and Modern Societies
G. E. R. Lloyd
Reviews and Awards
"Lloyd is a genial Herodotus of modern academia, traveling widely, absorbing broadly and returning with marvels" - Paul Keyser, Aestimatio
"Lloyd's nuanced comprehension of the historiography of science studies is compellingly employed to unack previous misunderstandings and misreadings, while speaking to the future of the field. ... For the scholar of the history of science, Lloyd's study is an insightful and often philosophical examination of the nature of the human condition in ancient societies." - Jessica Evans, BJHS
"Being, Humanity, and Understanding wrestles with some of the most important and thorny questions in the philosophy of science as it bears on the humanities in general and the study of anthropology and history in particular Lloyds book is one of the best pleas I have read in recent years for the unremitting importance of the humanities." - Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"Being, Humanity, and Understanding is first and foremost a beautiful book. A specialist in Ancient Greece and classical China and a studious reader of ethnographic works on native peoples from numerous parts of the world, including Amazonia, Lloyd presents in clear and precise language a wide array of different expressions of human creativity in configuring worlds or, in other words, of elaborating ontologies." - Aparecida Vilaça, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory