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| ISBN: | 9780226789842
0226789845
9786613297662
6613297666
0226789829
9780226789828
1283297663
9781283297660
9780226789835
0226789837
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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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. Notebooks mix the raw material of observation with reverie, juxtaposed, in Taussig's case, with drawings, watercolors, and newspaper cuttings, which blend t.
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| Other form: | Print version: Taussig, Michael. I Swear I Saw This : Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2011 9780226789828
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| Standard no.: | 9786613297662
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