A Field Guide to a New Meta-field: Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide - Paperback

Barbara Stafford is a pioneering art historian whose research has long helped to bridge the divide between the humanities and cognitive sciences. In A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field, she marshals a distinguished group of thinkers to forge a ground-breaking dialogue between the emerging brain sciences, the liberal arts, and social sciences. Stafford's book examines meaning and mental function from this dual experimental perspective. The wide-ranging essays included here-from Frank Echenhofer's foray into shamanist hallucinogenic visions to David Bashwiner's analysis of emotion and danceability-develop a common language for implementing programmatic and institutional change. Demonstrating how formerly divided fields are converging around shared issues, A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field maps a high-level, crossdisciplinary adventure from one of our leading figures in visual studies.

• | Author: Barbara Maria Stafford
• | Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 01, 2011
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0226770559
• | ISBN-13: 9780226770550