A field guide to a new meta-field
Subtitle: bridging the humanities--neurosciences divide
By: edited by Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780226770543; 9780226770550
Subjects: Neurosciences and the arts; Neurosciences and the humanities
Description: 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{u2019}s book examines meaning and mental function from this dual experimental perspective. The wide-ranging essays included here{u2014}from Frank Echenhofer{u2019}s foray into shamanist hallucinogenic visions to David Bashwiner{u2019}s analysis of emotion and danceability{u2014}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. Leonardo.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Crystal and smoke : putting image back in mind / Barbara Maria Stafford; title: Tentacular mind : stoicism, neuroscience, and the configurations of physical reality / Thomas Habinek; title: The extended mind : an anthropological perspective on mind, agency and "smart" materials / Suzanne Küchler; title: Tartini's devil : peripheral mechanisms that underlie sensory illusions / Naoum P. Issa and Ari Rosenberg; title: Sociovisual perspective : vision and the forms of the human past / Philip J. Ethington; title: Ayahuasca shamanic visions : integrating neuroscience, psychotherapy, and spiritual perspectives / Frank Echenhofer; title: The new archaic : a neurophenomenological approach to religious ways of knowing / Anne C. Benvenuti and Elizabeth J.L. Davenport; title: Lifting the foot : the neural underpinnings of the "pathological" response to music / David Michael Bashwiner; title: Alvar Aalto's astonishing rationalism / Sarah Williams Goldhagen; title: Semantic reciprocity : toward a neuroscience of cultural change / Nicholas Tresilian.