Tim Asch
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Tim Asch (July 16, 1932 - October 3, 1994, Los Angeles, California), was a noted anthropologist, photographer, and ethnographic filmmaker. Along with John Marshall and Robert Gardner, Asch played an important role in the development of visual anthropology. He is particularly known for his film The Ax Fight.
Asch was born in Southampton, New York and attended The Putney School before joining Columbia University where he received his B.S. in anthropology in 1959. While at Columbia, he served as a teaching assistant for Margaret Mead who encouraged his work in visual anthropology. From 1950-1951, he served apprenticeships with Minor White, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams through the San Francisco Art Institute (formerly known as the California School of Fine Arts). He received his M.A. in African Studies from Boston University (with an anthropology concentration at Harvard University) in 1964.
He taught at New York University, Brandeis University, and Harvard University, prior to joining the University of Southern California in 1982. He was the Director of the Center for Visual Anthropology from 1983 until he fell ill in 1994.
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[edit] Filmography
- Dodoth Morning (1963)
- The Feast (1969)
- Yanomamo: A Multidisciplinary Study (1971)
- Ocamo Is My Town (1974)
- Arrow Game (1974)
- Weeding the Garden (1974)
- A Father Washes His Children (1974)
- Firewood (1974)
- A Man and His Wife Weave a Hammock (1974)
- Children's Magical Death (1974)
- Magical Death (1974)
- Climbing the Peach Palm (1974)
- New Tribes Mission (1974)
- Yanomamo, a one-hour special for Japanese television (1974)
- The Ax Fight (1975)
- A Man Called "Bee": Studying the Yanomamo (1975)
- Moonblood (1975)
- Tapir Distribution (1975)
- Tug Of War (1975)
- Bride Service (1975)
- The Yanomamo Myth of Naro as Told By Kaobawa (1975)
- The Yanomamo Myth of Naro as Told By Dedeheiwa (1975)
- Jaguar: A Yanomamo Twin-Cycle Myth (1976)
- The Sons of Haji Omar (1978)
- A Balinese Trance Seance (1979)
- Jero on Jero: A Balinese Trance Seance Observed (1980)
- Jero Tapakan: Stories From the Life of a Balinese Healer (1983)
- The Medium is the Masseuse: A Balinese Massage (1983)
- The Water of Words (1983)
- Spear and Sword (1988)
- Releasing the Spirits (1990)
- A Celebration of Origins (1992)
[edit] See also
- Napoleon Chagnon
- John Marshall (filmmaker)
- Barbara Myerhoff
- Jay Ruby
- Margaret Mead Film Festival
- Yanomami
- Robert Gardner
[edit] Bibliography
By Asch:
About Asch:
[edit] References
- Finding Aid to the Papers of Timothy Asch, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Barbash, Ilisa and Lucien Taylor. Cross-cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
- Ruby, Jay. "Out of Sync: The Cinema of Tim Asch." In Picturing Culture: Essays on Film and Anthropology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
- ---.Some Hurried Thoughts about Tim Asch and Patrick Tierney.
[edit] External links
- Tim Asch: Yanomamo Series. www.der.org. Retrieved on January 17, 2007.
- Tim Asch at the Internet Movie Database
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