And the garden is you : essays on fieldwork, writingwork, and readingwork / Michael Taussig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taussig, Michael T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taussig, Michael T--Travel.

Taussig, Michael T.

Ethnology--Authorship.

Ethnology.

Experience.

Learning and scholarship.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

x, 190 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Michael Taussig's works are known not only for their critical insights, but also for their bold and experimental style. In these essays, Taussig finds himself reflecting on the act of writing itself, revealing its importance for anthropological practice and calling for the discipline to keep experiential knowledge from extinguishing as fieldnotes become scholarship. Taussig calls for and exemplifies a form of exploratory writing that preserves the spontaneity and magic of notes scribbled down in haste. His reflections take us from his childhood in Sydney to trips to Afghanistan, Colombia, Finland, Italy, Turkey, and Syria. Along the way, Taussig also explores themes of fabulation and provocation that are central to his work, in addition to the thinkers dearest to him--Bataille, Benjamin, Burroughs, and Nietzsche, among others. This collection is vintage Taussig, bound to interest longtime readers and newcomers alike"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The manglewort : in which the content becomes the form

Mooning Texas

Tom the naturalist

Darkness at noon

Kobane : mastery of non-mastery

War games

Unpacking my library

Lost & found

And the garden is you : a sketch

Cities of Yagé : "larval entities waiting for a live one"

The cry of the donkey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226832388

0226832384

9780226832401

0226832406

OCLC:

1414456176

Publisher Number:

90100296551