Skilled Visions: Between Apprenticeship and Standards

Published by Berghahn Books 2007

Skilled Visions

Between Apprenticeship and Standards

Edited by: Cristina Grasseni

Volume 6 in the series EASA Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857455666

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About this book

Most arguments for a rediscovery of the body and the senses hinge on a critique of “visualism” in our globalized, technified society. This approach has led to a lack of actual research on the processes of visual “enskillment.” Providing a comprehensive spectrum of case studies in relevant contexts, this volume raises the issue of the rehabilitation of vision and contextualizes vision in the contemporary debate on the construction of local knowledge vs. the hegemony of the socio-technical network. By maintaining an ethnographic approach, the book provides practical examples that are both accessible to undergraduate students and informative for an academic audience.

Author / Editor information

Cristina Grasseni is a Professor of Anthropology at Leiden University (the Netherlands).

Reviews

“I found the volume to be consistently stimulating and was excited by a new visual anthropology dwelling not in the image but in how people actually look and see…and important and timely volume that does much to further our understanding of vision. It will be of great interest to researchers and students concerned with studies of sensory perceptions.” · Social Anthropology

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Cristina Grasseni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Skilled Visions and the Ecology of Practice
Chapter 1 ‘To have the world at a distance’: Reconsidering the Significance of Vision for Social Anthropology Rane Willerslev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 2 Good Looking: Learning to be a Cattle Breeder Cristina Grasseni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Chapter 3 Icons and Transvestites: Notes on Irony, Cognition and Visual Skill Francesco Ronzon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Part II: Positioning Gestures of Design in Art, Architecture and Laboratories
Chapter 4 Seeing and Drawing: the Role of Play in Medical Imaging Simon Cohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 5 Learning within the Workplaces of Artists, Anthropologists and Architects: Making Stories for Drawings and Writings Wendy Gunn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Chapter 6 Maps and Plans in ‘Learning to See’: the London Underground and Chartres Cathedral as Examples of Performing Design David Turnbull Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Part III: The Social Schooling of the Eye in Scientific and Medical Settings
Chapter 7 CT Suite: Visual Apprenticeship in the Age of the Mechanical Viewbox Barry Saunders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Chapter 8 Training the Naturalist’s Eye in the Eighteenth Century: Perfect Global Visions and Local Blind Spots Daniela Bleichmar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Chapter 9 Navigating the Brainscape: When Knowing Becomes Seeing Andreas Roepstorff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Epilogue Envisioning Skills: Insight, Hindsight, and Second Sight Michael Herzfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 238
Keywords: Applied Anthropology

eBook

Published: January 1, 2007
ISBN: 9780857455666