A Field Guide to a New Meta-field: Bridging the Humanities-N

ISBN: 0226741419

Author: Stafford, Barbara Maria

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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.Staffords book examines meaning and mental function from this dual experimental perspective. The wide-ranging essays included here-from Frank Echenhofers foray into shamanist hallucinogenic visions to David Bashwiners 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.