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I Swear I Saw This (Paperback)
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I Swear I Saw This (Paperback)
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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.
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' 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 "I Swear I Saw This"
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 after thoughts 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. "I
Swear I Saw This" 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
unravelling, 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.
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