Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film in Anthropology

Editor: Gary Seaman (Dept of Anthropology, University of Southern California)

Part 1: The Emergence of Ethnographic Film as an Anthropological Genre

• Chapter 1: The Ax Fight: Ethnographic Film in Anthropological Context
  Author: Daniel Marks (Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California)
  
  
• Chapter 2: Producing Culture: Shifting Representations of Social Theory in the Films of Timothy Asch
  Author: Faye Ginsburg (Program in Culture and Media, New York University)
  
  
• Chapter 3: What Really Happened: Tim Asch and The Ax Fight
  Author: Bill Nichols (Dept of Cinema, San Francisco State University)
  
  
• Chapter 4: Subjects, Images, Voices: Representing Gender in Ethnographic Films
  Authors: Linda Connor (Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Newcastle, New South Wales) and Patsy Asch (Filmmaker, Laboratory for the Iconic Recording of Human Behaviour, The Australian National University)
  
  
• Chapter 5: The Implications of "Event Analysis" for the Documentary Genre: The Ax Fight and the Films of Timothy Asch
  Author: Alexander Moore (Dept of Anthropology, University of Southern California)
  
  
• Chapter 6: Subtitling Ethnographic Films: Archetypes into Individuals
  Author: David MacDougall (Ethnographic Filmmaker)

Part 2: Life and Works: Making Images a Career

• Chapter 7: An Ethnographic Gaze: Scenes in the Anthropological Life of Timothy Asch
  Author: Douglas Harper (Department of Sociology, University of South Florida)
  
  
• Chapter 8: Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film in America
  Author: Karl Heider (Dept of Anthropology, University of South Carolina)
  
  
• Chapter 9: In on the Ground Floor: Timothy Asch at Harvard University and the Peabody Museum
  Author: Peter Loizos (Department of Social Anthropology, London School of Economics)

Part 3: Images of Fieldwork: Collaboration as an Ethnographic Methodology

• Chapter 10: From Harvard to the Australian National University: Collaboration with Tim Asch on Ethnographic Films on Eastern Indonesia Author: James J. Fox (Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University)
  
  
• Chapter 11: From Event to Ethnography: Ethnographic Film and Ethnographic Research in Tana 'Ai, Flores (Eastern Indonesia) Author: E. Douglas Lewis (Professor of Anthropology, Melbourne University Australia)
  
  
• Chapter 12 : "Like a Rabbit": The Asch Model of Collaboration in the Field Author: Janet Hoskins (Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California)

Part 4: Image and Audience: Educational Missions

• Chapter 13: The Challenges of a Pioneer: Tim Asch, Otherness and Film Reception
  Author: Wilton Martinez (Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California)
  
  
• Chapter 14 It's Your Turn Now: Timothy Asch and the Yanomami Educational Video Project.
  Author: Jesus Cardozo (Fundacion Venezolana para la Investigacion Antropologica, Caracas, Venezuela) and Hortensia Caballero (Dept of Anthropology, I.V.I.C., Caracas, Venezuela)
  
  
• Chapter 15: Image as Teacher: Timothy Asch and the Teaching of Anthropology
  Author: Nancy Lutkehaus (Dept of Anthropology, University of Southern California)
  
  
• Chapter 16: Significance of Reception and Consumption for Ethnographic Film: The Impact of Tim Asch's films in Western India.
  Author: Jayasinhji Jhala (Dept of Anthropology, Temple University)
  
  
• Chapter 17: Re-searching the Yanomamo: Interactive Classroom Projects Using Timothy Asch's Ethnographic Films.
  Author: Michael Mascha (Dept of Anthropology, University of Southern California)

Part 5: Archival Images: Institutional Visions of Research and Scholarship

• Chapter 18: Timothy Asch and the Definition of an Interpretive Community: the View from the Film Archives Author: John P. Homiak (Human Studies Film Archives,Smithsonian Institution)
  
  
• Chapter 19: Analyzing an Ax fight: Timothy Asch's 1960's Design for a Multimedia Research System
  Author: Gary Seaman (Dept of Anthropology, University of Southern California)
  
  
• Chapter 20: Bibliography and Filmography of Timothy Asch
  Author: Gary Seaman (Dept of Anthropology, University of Southern California)

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Revised 4/4/95