As an artist-anthropologist who studies “making” through apprenticeship, I have discovered that craft production in the Mexican copper-smithing community of Santa Clara del Cobre is a practice care, kind love. This inversion careful and caring labor, required to create well-made copper piece, also encompasses qualities skills queer societal stereotypes binary gender-lines. Artisans generate bod...

At first children sent here for treatment were mainly from the poorest homes. This is no longer so. The boys and girls, selected as the result of medical inspection from all the schools in Bradford?including secondary schools?are representative of every artisan class. No child is admitted here with any sort of infectious disease. Most suffer from ansemia and the ills that follow in its train. E...

Like sailing, gardening, politics, and poetry, law and ethnography are crafts of place: they work by the light of local knowledge. The instant case, Palsgraff or the Charles River Bridge, provides for law not only the ground from which reflection departs but also the object towards which it tends, and for ethnography, the settled practice, potlatch, or couvade, does the same. Whatever else anth...

We report the refractive correction of high astigmatism in one eye of a 23-year-old woman following deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) using an Artisan iris-fixated, toric, phakic intraocular lens (IOL). One year after implantation, uncorrected and corrected distance visual acuities were both 20/25, refraction was -1.00 D cylinder, and the endothelial cell count was 1827 cells/mm(2). Ir...

Routine serological examination of candidates for artisan employment with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Abadan began in the autumn of 1949, and 1,725 reports were available by the spring of 1950. The men were all subjected to physical examination, and apart from occasional reports of an old genital scar none of them had any clinical evidence of syphilis at the time of the serological investi...

Successful retrieval of images by shape feature is likely to be achieved only if we can mirror human similarity judgements. Following Biederman’s theory of recognition-by-components, we postulate that shape analysis for retrieval should characterize an image by identifying properties such as collinearity, shape similarity and proximity in component boundaries. Such properties can then be used t...