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ISBN 13: 9780415327749

Author: E.D Lewis

Timothy Asch (1932-1994) was probably the greatest ethnographic filmmaker of the latter twentieth century, and one of the best-known anthropologists of his generation. He worked with Margaret Mead, John Marshall and Napoleon Chagnon, lived and filmed on every continent except Antarctica, and won numerous international prizes. His work, which includes ‘The Ax Fight’ and more than 50 other films of the Yanomamö Indians of Venezuela, comprises the most widely used resource in the teaching of anthropology today. Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film combines a biographical overview of Asch’s life with theoretical and critical perspectives, giving a definitive guide to his background, aims and ideas, methodology and major projects. Beautifully illustrated with 60 photos, and featuring articles from many of Asch’s friends, colleagues and collaborators as well as an important interview with Asch himself, it is an ideal introduction to his work and to a range of key issues in ethnographic film.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: Timothy Asch in America and Australia
America, 1932–76
Australia, 1976–82
The Roti project
The Bali project
Working with Asch in Tana ‘Ai: a personal memoir
America, 1982–94
Notes
References

Chapter 2: An ethnographic gaze: Scenes in the anthropological life of Timothy Asch
Early years
California
Cape Breton
Japan
Anthropology
Visual anthropology
Africa
Back in the States
Later photography
Notes
References

Chapter 3: Man, a course of study: Situating Tim Asch’s pedagogy and ethnographic films
Why film?
Intellectual mentors and models
The Sputnik era: a role for visual images in the teaching of science
From Endicott House to ESI: the birth of the MACOS Project
The psychological reasons for the use of film in teaching anthropology
The production and use of sequence films
Concentration on studying two or three cultures in depth
The role of film in the perception of contrast
The attempt to show students what an anthropologist actually does in the field
Debate in Congress over MACOS
Conclusion: the paradoxical power of images
Acknowledgments
Notes
References

Chapter 4: At the beginning: Tim Asch in the early 1960s
Notes
Reference

Chapter 5: Efforts and events in a long collaboration: Working with Tim Asch on ethnographic films on Roti in eastern Indonesia
Introductory comment
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Canberra, Australia
From Bali to Roti
Ufa Len, Termanu
On leaving Roti
Back to the future: the goal of an electronic study guide
Notes
References
Films

Chapter 6: From event to ethnography: Film-making and ethnographic research in Tana ‘Ai, Flores, eastern Indonesia
The heuristic film, or, on not working to a script
The textualization of the cinematic record
Sound recordings and subtitles
Film, feedback, and montage
Film and ethnography
Photo-elicitation: experiments in informant feedback in Tana ‘Ai
Notes
References
Films

Chapter 7: The consequences of conation: Pedagogy and the inductive of an ethical film-maker
Introduction: characterizing Tim Asch’s work – from modernist realism to the modernist/post-modernist tension
Pedagogy and the conative function in Tim Asch’s ethnographic film-making
Collaboration and conation in Tim Asch’s film-making
Tim Asch’s ethnographic film-making as both modernist and post-modernist
Conclusion: the ethical film-maker as catalytic pedagogue
Notes
References
Films

Chapter 8: Producing culture: Shifting representations of social theory in the films of Tim Asch
Introduction
Intentional fallacies and plain speech
The Yanomamö work: from Marcel Mauss to premature postmodernism
The Bali Project: recuperating the subject
The Yanomamö Training Project: reverse shots
Conclusion
Notes
References

Chapter 9: Subjects, images, voices: Representations of gender in the films of Timothy Asch
Introduction
Initiating relationships
Creating subjects
Representations of gender in The Ax Fight
Representations of gender in Asch’s Bali and Flores films
Conclusion: ethnographic film as a “technology of gender”
Notes
References
Films

Chapter 10: Timothy Asch, the rise of visual anthropology, and the Human Studies Film Archives
Introduction
The evolution of a subdiscipline
The institutional context of ethnographic film-making from the 1960s
The Belmont Conference
From Belmont to the establishment of the National Anthropological Film Center
Conclusion
Notes
References

Chapter 11: Tim Asch, otherness, and film reception
Film impact and pedagogical model
The stereotype as fetish: masking difference
Fierceness as difference: reception of The Ax Fight
The good, the bad, and the ugly: reception of the film series
Conclusion: the challenges of the representer
Notes
References

Chapter 12: What really happened: A reassessment of The Ax Fight
Part I
Part II
Note
Reference
Films

Chapter 13: The Ax Fight on CD-ROM
Introduction to Yanomamö Interactive
Description of screens in Yanomamö Interactive
Analysis screens in Yanomamö Interactive
Graphic resources in Yanomamö Interactive
Five ways of looking at The Ax Fight
Section One: Confusion in fieldwork
Section Two: Methodology backstage
Section Three: Interpretation, creativity, and error-correction
Section Four: Genealogies, contradiction, and fission
Section Five: Slick editing, default meaning
The Ax Fight re-takes and digital interpretations
Reconsidering controversies with researchable film
Translating filmed behavior streams into discrete data
Reductionism: pushing film research to the limits
Theory, biography, and history
Tools to analyze the structure of The Ax Fight
Selective perception in field observation and ethnographic film
Conclusion
Notes
References
Films

Chapter 14: Person, event, and the location of the cinematic subject in Timothy Asch’s films on Indonesia
Elements of style in Asch’s Indonesia films
The Indonesia corpus as ethnological films
Conclusion
Notes
References

Appendix: Writings and films of Timothy Asch
Published work and unpublished manuscripts
Co-authored writings
Films
The Yanomamö Series, with Napoleon Chagnon
References

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