ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on skilled vision, as both method and object of anthropological research, namely as an anthropological notion and an ethnographic object lying at the intersection between ‘the use of visual material in anthropological research’ and ‘the study of visual systems and visible culture’ (Morphy and Banks 1997:1).1 It recounts how the use of a video camera aided my attempt to gain an insight into the skilled vision of a community of cattle breeders, and reflects on how filming may help the researcher to think about how ways of seeing are framed by practices.
