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The Ax Fight
The Ax Fight (1975) is an ethnographic film by anthropologist and filmmaker Tim Asch, his wife Patsy Asch, and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon about a conflict in a Yanomami village called Mishimishimabowei-teri in southern Venezuela. It is best known as an iconic and idiosyncratic ethnographic film about the Yanomamo and is frequently shown in classroom settings.Ruby, Jay. 1995. "Out of Sync: The Cinema of Tim Asch." Visual Anthropology Review, Volume 11 Number 1 Spring. [*]
Summary
The film has four parts and operates on a number of analytical levels. It opens with a map of the region where the village is ...
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