'To have the world at a distance': Reconsidering the significance of vision for social anthropology

Skilled Visions: Between Apprenticeship and Standards

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 23-46

  Willerslev, Rane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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