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ISBN: PB: 9780226770550

ISBN: HB: 9780226770543

University of Chicago Press

June 2011

368 pp.

22.6x15.2 cm

5 tables, 80 halftones

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£28,00
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Field Guide to a New Meta-Field

Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide

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.

About the Author

Barbara Maria Stafford is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago and Distinguished Visiting University Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of numerous previous books, including "Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images", also published by the University of Chicago Press.