Skilled Visions Between Apprenticeship and Standards
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
eBook, English, 2007
EASA Series, 6
1 Online-Ressource (238 p.).
9780857455666, 0857455664
1357150095
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