Skilled visions : between apprenticeship and standards /
Grasseni, Cristina.
New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'To have the world at a distance' : reconsidering the significance of vision for social anthropology / Rane Willerslev -- Good looking : learning to be a cattle breeder / Cristina Grasseni -- Icons and transvestites : notes on irony, cognition and visual skill / Francesco Ronzon -- Seeing and drawing : the role of play in medical imaging / Simon Cohn -- Learning within the workplaces of artists, anthropologists and architects : making stories for drawings and writings / Wendy Gunn -- Maps and plans in 'Learning to see' : the London underground and Chartres Cathedral as examples of performing design / David Turnbull -- CT suite : visual apprenticeship in the age of the mechanical viewbox / Barry Saunders -- Training the naturalist's eye in the eighteenth century : perfect global visions and local blind spots / Daniela Bleichmar -- Navigating the brainscape : when knowing becomes seeing / Andreas Roepstorff -- Epilogue: Envisioning skills : insight, hindsight, and second sight / Michael Herzfeld.
Vision.
Visual anthropology.
Senses and sensation.