Skilled visions : between apprenticeship and standards /: between apprenticeship and standards. ([2010])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Cristina Grasseni.
• Editors: Grasseni, Cristina
• Contents: List of Figures <a href="/downloads/intros/GrasseniSkilled_intro.pdf" target="_blank"><img align="left" border="0" onmouseout="this.src='/img/icon_pdf.png'" onmouseover="this.src='/img/icon_pdf2.png'" src="/img/icon_pdf.png" /> 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
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Copyright Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (234 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 306.4; Vision; Visual anthropology; Senses and sensation; Visual perception; Senses and sensation; Vision; Visual anthropology; Visual perception
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845457037; 9780857455666; 0857455664
• Related ISBNs: 184545703X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 22, 2014).
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