Skilled Visions: Between Apprenticeship and StandardsMost 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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Contents
The Social Schooling of the Eye in Scientific | 15 |
Reconsidering the | 23 |
Learning to be a Cattle Breeder | 47 |
Notes on Irony Cognition | 67 |
Positioning Gestures of Design in Art Architecture | 89 |
Learning within the Workplaces of Artists | 106 |
the London | 125 |
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| Title | Skilled Visions: Between Apprenticeship and Standards Berghahn Series Volume 6 of EASA series Volume 6 of European Association of Social Anthropologists Volume 6 of Learning fields |
| Editor | Cristina Grasseni |
| Contributor | European Association of Social Anthropologists |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1845452100, 9781845452100 |
| Length | 226 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / Anthropology / General |
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