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

by 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 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: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"