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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: EASA Series ; 6Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845452100
  • 9780857455666
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4 23
LOC classification:
  • GN277 .S55 2010eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.
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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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