“I think of the hard work I have done and even more of all the waiting and boredom as not exactly irrelevant but as nothing more than a necessary prelude for chance to show its hand” (Taussig 2011:59). Last night I finished reading Michael Taussig’s reflections on drawings in anthropological field notebooks (namely his) in his 2011 book, I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own (University of Chicago Press.) Similar to my experience with most of his […]

Categories: Anthropology, Drawing, Fieldwork, Quotes • Tags: drawings, fieldnotes, Georges Bataille, I Swear I Saw This, Joan Didion, John Berger, Michael Taussig, notebooks, roland barthes, Walter Benjamin