A 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{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. Crystal And Smoke : Putting Image Back In Mind / Barbara Maria Stafford -- Tentacular Mind : Stoicism, Neuroscience, And The Configurations Of Physical Reality / Thomas Habinek -- The Extended Mind : An Anthropological Perspective On Mind, Agency And Smart Materials / Suzanne Küchler -- Tartini's Devil : Peripheral Mechanisms That Underlie Sensory Illusions / Naoum P. Issa And Ari Rosenberg -- Sociovisual Perspective : Vision And The Forms Of The Human Past / Philip J. Ethington -- Ayahuasca Shamanic Visions : Integrating Neuroscience, Psychotherapy, And Spiritual Perspectives / Frank Echenhofer -- The New Archaic : A Neurophenomenological Approach To Religious Ways Of Knowing / Anne C. Benvenuti And Elizabeth J.l. Davenport -- Lifting The Foot : The Neural Underpinnings Of The Pathological Response To Music / David Michael Bashwiner -- Alvar Aalto's Astonishing Rationalism / Sarah Williams Goldhagen -- Semantic Reciprocity : Toward A Neuroscience Of Cultural Change / Nicholas Tresilian. Edited By Barbara Maria Stafford. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.