I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own

by Michael Taussig

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226789837

ISBN13:9780226789835

Release Date:December 2011

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.54 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"

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