A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field

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

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780226770543
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Imprint: The University of Chicago Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 362.25
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 354
Weight: 709g
Height: 24mm
Width: 17mm
Spine width: 2mm