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    The Ax Fight (1975) is an ethnographic film by anthropologist and filmmaker Tim Asch and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon about a conflict in a Yanomami...
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    Tribal art is the visual arts and material culture of indigenous peoples. Also known as non-Western art or ethnographic art, or, controversially, primitive...
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    Tim Asch (category The Putney School alumni)
    important role in the development of visual anthropology. He is particularly known for his film The Ax Fight and his role with the USC Center for Visual...
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  • Napoleon Chagnon (category Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences)
    twenty ethnographic films documenting Yanomamö life. The ethnographic film The Ax Fight, showing a fight among two Yanomami groups and analyzing it as it...
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    Asch – US The Feast, 1969 Yanomamo: A Multidisciplinary Study, 1971 Magical Death, 1974 The Ax Fight, 1975 A Man Called "Bee": Studying the Yanomamo,...
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    Anthropology (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and...
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    fifty-year involvement with the Ju/'hoansi. Napoleon Chagnon and Tim Asch's two famous films, The Ax Fight and The Feast (both filmed in the 1960s), are intimately...
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    Salvage ethnography is the recording of the practices and folklore of cultures threatened with extinction, including as a result of modernization and assimilation...
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    [citation needed] In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography,[citation needed] the film follows the struggles of the Inuk man named...
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