Event overview
Anthropologist Michael Taussig talks about the relationship between writing, culture and time.
"I began began doing fieldwork in 1969. I have returned every year" says Mick Taussig. His writing has spanned a wide range of issues ranging from the commercialization of peasant agriculture to a study of exciting substance loaded with seduction and evil, gold and cocaine, in a montage-ethnography of the Pacific Coast of Colombia. His most recent book 'I Swear I Saw This' (University of Chicago Press, 2011) records reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. 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.
Part of the Real Time Research project
Dates & times
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27 Jan 2012 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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