Skilled Visions

Between Apprenticeship and Standards
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84545-703-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 238 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

Reihe: EASA Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grasseni, Cristina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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

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