Anthropologist Michael Taussig (Columbia University) talks about the relationship between writing, culture and time.
Friday 27 January 2012, 6pm
Goldsmiths New Academic Building, Lower Ground 02 (see here for directions to Goldsmiths: http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/) "I began doing fieldwork in 1969, I have returned every year" says Mick Taussig. His writing has spanned a wide range of issues including the commercialisation of peasant agriculture, the popular manifestations of the working of commodity fetishism, the impact of colonialism (historical and contemporary) on "shamanism" and folk healing and the making, talking and writing of terror.

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.

This lecture is part of the Real Time Research project, sponsored by the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods. No booking required - all are welcome.
http://realtimeresearch.posterous.com/pages/event-two