Chapter 1 ‘To have the world at a distance’: Reconsidering the Significance of Vision for Social Anthropology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Skilled Visions and the Ecology of Practice
6. Chapter 1 ‘To have the world at a distance’: Reconsidering the Significance of Vision for Social Anthropology 23
7. Chapter 2 Good Looking: Learning to be a Cattle Breeder 47
8. Chapter 3 Icons and Transvestites: Notes on Irony, Cognition and Visual Skill 67
9. Part II: Positioning Gestures of Design in Art, Architecture and Laboratories
10. Chapter 4 Seeing and Drawing: the Role of Play in Medical Imaging 91
11. Chapter 5 Learning within the Workplaces of Artists, Anthropologists and Architects: Making Stories for Drawings and Writings 106
12. Chapter 6 Maps and Plans in ‘Learning to See’: the London Underground and Chartres Cathedral as Examples of Performing Design 125
13. Part III: The Social Schooling of the Eye in Scientific and Medical Settings
14. Chapter 7 CT Suite: Visual Apprenticeship in the Age of the Mechanical Viewbox 145
15. Chapter 8 Training the Naturalist’s Eye in the Eighteenth Century: Perfect Global Visions and Local Blind Spots 166
16. Chapter 9 Navigating the Brainscape: When Knowing Becomes Seeing 191
17. Epilogue Envisioning Skills: Insight, Hindsight, and Second Sight 207
18. Notes on Contributors 219
19. Index 221