Skilled Visions : : Between Apprenticeship and Standards /

Skilled Visions : : Between Apprenticeship and Standards / / ed. by Cristina Grasseni.

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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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bleichmar, Daniela,
Cohn, Simon,
Grasseni, Cristina,
Gunn, Wendy,
Herzfeld, Michael,
Roepstorff, Andreas,
Ronzon, Francesco,
Saunders, Barry,
Turnbull, David,
Willerslev, Rane,
HerausgeberIn:
Grasseni, Cristina,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:EASA Series ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (238 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Chapter 2 Good Looking: Learning to be a Cattle Breeder
  • Chapter 3 Icons and Transvestites: Notes on Irony, Cognition and Visual Skill
  • Part II: Positioning Gestures of Design in Art, Architecture and Laboratories
  • Chapter 4 Seeing and Drawing: the Role of Play in Medical Imaging
  • Chapter 5 Learning within the Workplaces of Artists, Anthropologists and Architects: Making Stories for Drawings and Writings
  • Chapter 6 Maps and Plans in ‘Learning to See’: the London Underground and Chartres Cathedral as Examples of Performing Design
  • 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
  • Chapter 8 Training the Naturalist’s Eye in the Eighteenth Century: Perfect Global Visions and Local Blind Spots
  • Chapter 9 Navigating the Brainscape: When Knowing Becomes Seeing
  • Epilogue Envisioning Skills: Insight, Hindsight, and Second Sight
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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