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I Swear I Saw This
Michael Taussig
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Description for I Swear I Saw This
Hardback. Records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. This title exhibits Taussig's characteristic verve and intellectual audacity, that is combined with a revelatory sense of intimacy. Num Pages: 176 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
"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. Notebooks mix the raw material of observation with reverie, juxtaposed, in Taussig's case, with drawings, watercolors, and newspaper cuttings, which blend the inner and ... Read more
"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. Notebooks mix the raw material of observation with reverie, juxtaposed, in Taussig's case, with drawings, watercolors, and newspaper cuttings, which blend the inner and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226789828
SKU
V9780226789828
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About Michael Taussig
Michael Taussig is the Class of 1933 Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of ten books, including What Color Is the Sacred?, Walter Benjamin's Grave, and My Cocaine Museum, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for I Swear I Saw This
"In the course of reflecting on shamanism and the Native cultures of the Americas, and the relationship of symbolism, drugs, and color, and introducing such interesting concepts as 'preemptively apocalyptic knowledge' and the bodily unconsciousness, the author offers no less than an ethnology of color.... It is also beautifully poetic, thoroughly rational, and an excellent read." -Choice "Michael Taussig has ... Read more