{"product_id":"i-swear-i-saw-this-drawings-in-fieldwork-notebooks-namely-my-own-paperback","title":"I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Taussig\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Swear I Saw This\u003c\/i\u003e 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 outer worlds in a fashion reminiscent of Brion Gysin and William Burroughs's surreal cut-up technique. Focusing on the small details and observations that are lost when writers convert their notes into finished pieces, Taussig calls for new ways of seeing and using the notebook as form. Memory emerges as a central motif in \u003ci\u003eI Swear I Saw This\u003c\/i\u003e as he explores his penchant to inscribe new recollections in the margins or directly over the original entries days or weeks after an event. This palimpsest of afterthoughts leads to ruminations on Freud's analysis of dreams, Proust's thoughts on the involuntary workings of memory, and Benjamin's theories of history-fieldwork, Taussig writes, provokes childhood memories with startling ease. \u003ci\u003eI Swear I Saw This\u003c\/i\u003e exhibits Taussig's characteristic verve and intellectual audacity, here combined with a revelatory sense of intimacy. He writes, \"drawing is thus a depicting, a hauling, an unraveling, and being impelled toward something or somebody.\" Readers will exult in joining Taussig once again as he follows the threads of a tangled skein of inspired associations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Taussig\u003c\/b\u003e is the Class of 1933 Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of ten books, including \u003ci\u003eWhat Color Is the Sacred?\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Walter Benjamin's Grave\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e My Cocaine Museum, \u003c\/i\u003eall published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 8.48 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376807166130,"sku":"9780226789835","price":50.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/a37a2aa7b2dc487d2a3897e4a2c68749.webp?v=1777710260","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/i-swear-i-saw-this-drawings-in-fieldwork-notebooks-namely-my-own-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}