Skilled Visions

Between Apprenticeship and Standards
Herausgeber: Grasseni, Cristina

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781845457037
• ISBN-10: 184545703X
• Artikelnr.: 30497336

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Introduction
Cristina Grasseni
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
Chapter 2. Good Looking: Learning to be a Cattle Breeder
Cristina Grasseni
Chapter 3. Icons and Transvestites: Notes on Irony, Cognition and Visual
Skill
Francesco Ronzon
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
Chapter 5. Learning within the Workplaces of Artists, Anthropologists and
Architects: Making Stories for Drawings and Writings
Wendy Gunn
Chapter 6. Maps and Plans in 'Learning to See': the London Underground and
Chartres Cathedral as Examples of Performing Design
David Turnbull
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
Chapter 8. Training the Naturalist's Eye in the Eighteenth Century: Perfect
Global Visions and Local Blind Spots
Daniela Bleichmar
Chapter 9. Navigating the Brainscape: When Knowing Becomes Seeing
Andreas Roepstorff
Epilogue: Envisioning Skills: Insight, Hindsight, and Second Sight
Michael Herzfeld
Notes on Contributors
Index