I swear I saw this : drawings in fieldwork notebooks, namely my own / Michael Taussig.
"I Swear I Saw This records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig’s reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006—as well as its caption, “I swear I saw this”—Taussig considers the f...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2011]
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| Summary: | "I Swear I Saw This records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig’s reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006—as well as its caption, “I swear I saw this”—Taussig considers the fieldwork notebook as a type of modernist literature and the place where writers and other creators first work out the imaginative logic of discovery."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0226789829 9780226789828 0226789837 9780226789835 6613297666 9786613297662 |