Skilled Visions

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

“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

• List of FiguresIntroductionCristina GrasseniPART I: SKILLED VISIONS AND THE ECOLOGY OF PRACTICEChapter 1. ‘To have the world at a distance’: Reconsidering the Significance of Vision for Social AnthropologyRane WillerslevChapter 2. Good Looking: Learning to be a Cattle BreederCristina GrasseniChapter 3. Icons and Transvestites: Notes on Irony, Cognition and Visual SkillFrancesco RonzonPART II: POSITIONING GESTURES OF DESIGN IN ART, ARCHITECTURE AND LABORATORIESChapter 4. Seeing and Drawing: the Role of Play in Medical ImagingSimon CohnChapter 5. Learning within the Workplaces of Artists, Anthropologists and Architects: Making Stories for Drawings and WritingsWendy GunnChapter 6. Maps and Plans in ‘Learning to See’: the London Underground and Chartres Cathedral as Examples of Performing DesignDavid TurnbullPART III: THE SOCIAL SCHOOLING OF THE EYE IN SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL SETTINGSChapter 7. CT Suite: Visual Apprenticeship in the Age of the Mechanical ViewboxBarry SaundersChapter 8. Training the Naturalist’s Eye in the Eighteenth Century: Perfect Global Visions and Local Blind SpotsDaniela BleichmarChapter 9. Navigating the Brainscape: When Knowing Becomes SeeingAndreas RoepstorffEpilogue: Envisioning Skills: Insight, Hindsight, and Second SightMichael HerzfeldNotes on ContributorsIndex