Skilled Visions

Between Apprenticeship and Standards

AvCristina Grasseni

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-11-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 9 mm
Vikt:322 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:EASA Series
Antal sidor:238
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781845457037

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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

Recensioner i media

“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

Innehållsförteckning

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