TIMOTHY ASCH

Timothy Asch has collaborated with anthropologists to produce films in North and South America, Africa, and Indonesia. His has been a career which has helped to set new trends and innovations in ethnographic filmmaking. He studied with celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead and luminary photographers Ansel Adams and Minor White. In the 1950s and 1960s at a time of numerous technological break-throughs, Timothy Asch and filmmakers John Marshall (The Hunters) and Robert Gardner (Dead Birds), were key players in the formation of the ethnographic film program of the Harvard University Peabody Museum.

Education:

1962-64 Boston University, African Studies Program (with Anthropology concentration at Harvard University): M. A. Anthropology
1955-59 Columbia University: B. S. Anthropology
1950-51 California School of Fine Arts and Apprenticeships with still photographers Minor White, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams

Academic Positions in Anthropology:

1985- Professor of Anthropology, University of Southern California
1983- Director, Center for Visual Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California
1982-85 Associate Professor, University of Southern California
1982 Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
1976-81 Senior Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Institute of Advanced Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
1974-76 Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
1969-73 Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University; Member of the Board of Academic Advisors 1971; [Research Associate (1973-76]
1970 Lecturer in Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Peace Corps Training (Summer) Program, Newtown, Massachusetts
1968-70 Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, New York University

Positions in Film, Education, Media and Instructional Resources:

1985- Director, International Anthropological Film Archive
1983- Editor, American Anthropology Association's Society for Visual Anthropology Newsletter
1975 Research Cinematographer, National Anthropological Film Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1973-74 Adjunct Associate Professor of Film and Associate Director, Brandeis University Film and Media Communications Program, Department of Theater Arts, Brandeis University
1973-79 Research Fellow in Ethnographic Film, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
1975 Lecturer, University Film Study Center, Hampshire College, Summer Institute
1970-76 Audiovisual Editor, American Anthropologist (Journal of the American Anthropological Association), Washington, D.C.
1970-71 Lecturer in Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
1968-70 Research Associate in Human Genetics, University of Michigan
1967- Director and Co-Founder of Documentary Educational Resources, Watertown, Massachusetts, a non-profit curriculum development corporation distributing educational media
1966-68 Anthropology Curriculum and Media Consultant to the Newton Public Schools, Newton, Massachusetts
1966-68 Lecturer in Anthropology and Theater Arts, Brandeis University
1965-66 Director of Ethnographic Studies and coordinator of the Bushmen Social Studies Curriculum Project (initially for inclusion in Man: A Course of Study--MACOS, Educational Services, Inc., later called Educational Development Center. [Curriculum consultant,
1967-71]
1964-67 Ethnographic Film Consultant to Director of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University
1959-62 Film editor, cinematographer and Administrative Assistant. Film Study Center, Peabody Museum, Harvard University
1954-59 Freelance photojournalist and photographer

Military Service:

1953-54 U. S. Army Travelling Reporter in Japan, for Asahi Shinbun, Mainichi Shinbun, Nippon Times and Stars and Stripes

Publications:

1992 Asch, Timothy, "J'enseigne L'anthropologie" (pages 122-127) in "Cinem Actions" "Demain, le Cinema Ethnographique?" Corlet-Telerama: Paris.
1992 Asch, Timothy, "The Ethics of Ethnographic Film-making " (pages 196-204) in FILM AS ETHNOGRAPHY. Peter Ian Craford and David Turton editors. Manchester University Press.
1992 Asch, Timothy, "La Formacion de Antropologos Visuales" (pages 114-121) in"Fundamentos de Antropologia". Centro de investigaciones Etnologicas. Grenada, Spain.
1991 Asch, Timothy, "The Defence of Yanomami Society and Culture: Its Importance and Singificance" (pages 35-38) in "La Iglesia en Amazonas" Ano XII - No. 53 Junio: Caracas.
1991 Asch, Timothy,"Das Filmen in Sequenzen und die Darstellung von Kultur" (Sequence Filming and the Representation of Culture). In JAGER UND GEJAGTE: John Marshall und Seine Filme. R. Kazpfer/W. Petermann/R. Thomas editors. Trickster Verlag Publishers, Munich. (pages 123-134)
1991 Asch, Timothy & Lucian Taylor, "Contributo All'Antropologia. Jean Rouch Cineaste Etnografico (Jean Rouch's contribution to Anthropology as an Ethnographic Filmmaker" (4 pages) and "Une Contribution A L'anthropologie Jean Rouch, Cineaste Ethnographique" (4 pages) both for the Monograph JEAN ROUCH LE RENARD PALE. Published by the Centre Culturel Francais de Turin and the Museo Nazionale del Cinema de Torino (9 manuscript pages reduced to 4 double columns, pages 157-164).
1991 Asch Timothy, The Story We now Want to Hear is Not Ours to Tell - Relinquishing Control Over Representation: Toward Sharing Visual Communication Skills with the Yanomamo in "Visual Anthropology Review," Vol. 7 #2, published by the American Anthropology Association, Washington, DC (9 manuscript pages reduced to 5 double columns, pages 102-106).
1989 "L'uso del film nella didattica dell'antropologia de Timothy Asch" in "Il Nuovo spettatore 12: Realta dell'uomo Cinema E. Antropologia, Franco Angeli Milno, Italy (pages 99-115).
1988 "Collaboration in Ethnographic Filmmaking: A Personal View". In Anthropological Filmmaking, edited by Jack Rollwagen. New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, pages 1-29
1988 "Film in Anthropological Research". In Cinematographic Theory and New Dimensions in Ethnographic Film, edited by Paul Hocking and Yasuhiro Omori. The National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, pages 165-189.
1987 "Film Biography and the Translation of Culture". Pp. 11-13 in Arts and Artisans: A Celebration of the Margaret Mead Festival. A monograph to accompany a film exposition and exhibit traveling throughout the United States in 1987, 1988 and 1989.
1987 "Images That Represent Ideas: The Use of Films on the !Kung to Teach Anthropology" (co-authored with Patsy Asch). Pp. 327-58 in The Past and Future of !Kung Ethnography: Critical Reflections and Symbolic Perspectives. Edited by Megan Biesele with Robert Gordon and Richard Lee. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag.
1985 Jero Tapakan: Balinese Healer, An Ethnographic Film Monograph" co-authored with Linda Connor and Patsy Asch). Cambridge University Press, 284 pps. Paper and hardback.
- Boxed with 4 films on video cassette
- 1. Balinese Trance Seance
- 2. Jero on Jero: A Balinese Trance Seance Observed
- 3. The Medium is the Masseuse: A Balinese Massage
- 4. Jero Tapakan: Stories From the Life of A Balinese Healer
1985 Tales of the Yanomami: Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest (Le Cercle des Feux: Faits et dits des Indiens Yanomami) by Jacques Lizot, Cambridge University Press. I helped to publish and wrote the "Introduction" to the English translation
1984 Edited: Film Study Guides for Ju/wasi (!Kung, San, Bushmen, Namibia Southern Africa) and Yanomamo (Southern Venezuela and Northern Brazil) Films. University of Southern California. (304 pages)
1982 "Collaboration in Ethnographic Filming" (with Patsy Asch). Canberra Anthropologist. Vol. 5, No. 1, 1982, pages 8-36
1982 "Ethnographic Film: It's Theory and Application" in "Anthropology News," Proceedings of the Anthropological Society of Western Australia, Vol 19, #4, May.
1979 "Making a Film Record of the Yanomamo Indians of Southern Venezuela." In Perspectives on Film No. 2, The Pennsylvania State University, pages 4-9 and 44-49.
1979 "Report from the Australian National University on First Stage of Comparative Ethnographic Filming in Indonesia" in Society for the Anthropology of Visual Communication Newsletter. Vol. 7, No. 3, pages 5-8. The American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C.
1975 "Using Film in Teaching Anthropology: One Pedagogical Approach". In Visual Anthropology, Paul Hockings, editor. H. Mouton & Co., The Hague, pages 385-420
1974 "The Use of Films, Slides and Tape in Teaching Anthropology", in Education and Cultural Process: Towards an Anthropology of Education George D. Spindler,editor. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, pages 463-490.
1973 "Ethnographic Film: Structure and Function", with John Marshall and Peter Spier in the Annual Review of Anthropology. Annual Reviews, Inc., Palo Alto, California, pages 179-187.
1972 "Ethnographic Filming and the Yanomamo Indians". Sight Lines. Vol. 5, No. 3. Jan./Feb., pages 5-12.
1972 "Making Ethnographic Film for Teaching and Research". American Anthropological Association, Program in Ethnographic Film, Newsletter. Vol. 3, No. 2. Winter, pages 6-10.
1971 "Report from the Field: Filming the Yanomamo in Southern Venezuela". American Anthropological Association, Program in Ethnographic Film, Newsletter. Vol. 3, No. 1, Fall, pages 3-5.
1971 "Ethnographic Film Production". First presented at the American Scientific Film Association in Washington, 1962, and revised in
1969 for Film Comment. March, pages 40-42.
1970 "Anthropological Film", with Jay Ruby and Carroll Williams, in Rural Africana, African Studies Center, Michigan State University. Fall.
1970 "Film in Anthropological Teaching and Research", in American Anthropological Association, Program in Ethnographic Film, Newsletter. Vol. 1, No 2, May, pages 1-3.
1968 "A Family in Aiyetoro", with Ruth MacDonald in American Science and Engineering. Newton Public Schools.
1967 Note in Current Anthropology, December, "On Making Ethnographic Film", page 462.

Reviews:

1992 Asch, Timothy, Review of "INTO THE HEART: " One' Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomama by Kenneth Good and David Chanoff, Simon and Schuster, 1991 In "The American Anthropologist" June Vol 94 #2.
1990 "Cuyagna (Devile Dancers and the Saint with Two Faces)", a film by Paul Henley and George Dirion in "Visual Anthropology," vol. 2, No.2.
1988 "Men's Lives". "In Visual Anthropology." Vol. 1, No. 4, pages 484-486
1988 "Men's Lives" (a different review). In "Society for Visual Anthropology Newsletter." Vol. 4, No. 2, page 21.
1983 "To Find the Baruya Story and Her Name Came on Arrows: A Kinship Interview with the Baruya of Papua New Guinea." Films by Stephen Olsson, Allison Jabolonko, Marek Jabolonko and Maurice Godelier. American Anthropologist. Vol. 85, No. 3. September 1983, pages 751-753.

Additional Written Publications

1988 "Using the New Lightweight Portable Computer Technology on remote Field Location". In The Society for Visual Anthropology Newsletter. Vol. 4, No. 2, pages 63-64.
1987 "Report from Beijing". Society for Visual Anthropology Newsletter, 2,1:2-3.

In Preparation

Writing: Film and Anthropology. (A book, half finished, Cambridge University Press has shown interest). Reader in Visual Anthropology. A film ethnography of the Yanomami

Unpublished Written Materials:

1970 "Youth Adolescence and the Process of Socialization", a catalog of films. Educational Development Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Multilith). (43 pages)
1966 Underwood Long: An Experiment in Elementary School Curriculum. Submitted to the National Science Foundation as a progress paper for Educational Services.
1965 The Dodoth of Northeastern Uganda: A Study of Polity in an Egalitarian Society. M.A. Thesis. (98 pages)

Film Publications:

1993 Rituals of the Source (from the Ata Tana Ai of north central Flores in eastern Indonesia) with Patsy Asch and E. Douglas Lewis, 45 mins., distributed by Documentary Educational Resources.
1992 Americna Anthropology Association "Award for Excellence", and parnu, Estonia International Visual Anthropology Festival Prize
1992 American Anthropology Association "Award for Excellence" and Parnu, Estonia International Visual Anthropology Festival Prize.
1991 Releasing the Spirits: A Village Cremation in Bali (eastern Indonesia) (Balinese Cremation) with Patsy Asch and Linda Connor. 45 minutes, distributed by Documentary Educational Resources.
1989 Spear and Sword: A Ceremonial Payment of Bridewealth (The Island of Roti in eastern Indonesia), with James J. Fox and Patsy Asch. 30 mins., Documentary Educational Resources.
1983 Water of Words: A Cultural Ecology of a Small Island in Eastern Indonesia (with Patsy Asch and James J. Fox). 30 mins. Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources, Watertown, Mass. A film about the intersection of myth, poetry and identity with economic activities on the Island of Roti in eastern Indonesia. The film complements Fox's book Harvest of the Palm, Harvard University Press, 1977. Reviewed in The American Anthropologist, Vol. 89 #1:269-272, March by FitzJohn Porter Poole, University of California at San Diego, California.
1985 Air Kata Kata, Indonesian version of the 16mm film above Water of Words.
1979-83 Produced 4 films on possession, magic and healing centered around a Balinese healer, with the anthropologist Linda Connor and ethnographic filmmaker Patsy Asch. Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources.
- 1979 A Balinese Trance Seance. Awarded 1982 2nd Prize Royal Anthropological Institute, London, England.
- 1980 Jero on Jero: A Balinese Trance Seance observed.
- 1983 The Medium is the Masseuse: A Balinese Massage.
- 1983 Jero Tapakan: Stories From the Life of a Balinese Healer.
- These films have been reviewed by H. Geertz, American Anthropologist, Sept. 1984.
1978 The Sons of Haji Omar. With Asen Balikci and David Newman, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and The Smithsonian Institution. A 56-minute film about an Afghanistan pastoral migration. This film has been shown on TV by the BBC, CBC, PBS, and Germany, Japan (16 million viewers), Israel, Australia, etc. Distributed by the Pennsylvania State University locally and the National Film Board of Canada internationally. It has been used in class rooms around the world. Reviewed in the American Anthropologist, 1984, Vol. 86, No. 3, p. 806.
1974 Yanomamo. A one-hour Japanese Television Special produced in collaboration with Nippon A-V Production
1972 The Fierce People. A one-hour BBC Special "Horizons of Science", shown twice on British television
1969-76 Produced 39 films of the social life of Yanomamo Indians of Southern Venezuela and northern Brazil with Napoleon Chagnon. These films are all distributed by Documentary Educational Resources, Watertown, Massachusetts; and the Psychological Cinema Register, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. Starred films have been shown nationally and internationally on television.
- 1969 The Feast* 30 mins. Awards: First Prize Blue Ribbon Award, American Film Festival, New York; Golden Eagle, Flaherty Award, CINE Council for non- theatrical events, Washington, D.C.; 1970 Grand Prize of Golden Bucraium in Padua, Italy; 1972 First Prize co-winner Flaherty Award at First International Festival of Ethnographic and Sociological Films, Venice, Italy; 1971 Festival of Dei Popoli, Florence, Italy;
- 1972 Exceptional Merit Award, International Festival for Short Films, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Grand Prize, International Folklore and Tourism Festival.
- 1971 Yanomamo: A Multidisciplinary Study. 44 mins. Awards: 1971 Golden Eagle; 1972 Certificate, National Education Film Festival, Oakland, California; 1972 Fourth International Congress of Human Genetics, Paris, France; 1972 Second Prize Red Ribbon, American Film Festival, New York; 1972 Sydney Film Festival, Australia, 1972 9th International Educational Film Festival. Tehran, Iran; 1972 10th International Festival of Science Films, Trieste, Italy; 1972 Diploma of Merit, IV International Scientific Film Festival Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 1972 Edinburgh Film Festival Scotland; 1972 22nd International Festival of Tourist and Folklore Films, Brussels, Belgium; 1972 13th International Review of Social International Films, Florence, Italy; Festival dei Popoli.
- 1973 Magical Death,* 30 mins. Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival.
- 1974 Ocamo Is My Town, 12 mins.
- Arrow Game, 10 mins.
- Weeding the Garden, 20 mins.
- A Father Washes His Children,* 15 mins.
- Firewood, 12 mins.
- A Man and His Wife Make a Hammock, 9 mins.
- Children's Magical Death, 8 mins.
- Climbing the Peach Palm, 9 mins.
- New Tribes Mission, 12 mins.
- 1975 The Ax Fight.* 30 mins. Awards: 1976 Second Prize Red Ribbon 18th American Film Festival, New York; 1976 Diploma of Honor International Scientific Film Association, Philadelphia; 1977 Special Merit Award, Athens International Film Festival.
- A Man Called Bee: Studying the Yanomamo.* 45 mins. Awards: 1975 Second Prize Red Ribbon American Film Festival, New York; Cine Golden Eagle; Bronze Film Council of Greater Columbus.
- Tapir Distribution, 12 mins.
- Tug of War, 9 mins.
- Bride Service, 10 mins.
- The Yanomamo Myth of Naro as Told by Kaobawa,* 22 mins.
- The Yanomamo Myth of Naro as Told by Dedeheiwa, 22 mins. Finalist, American Film Festival.
- Moonblood: A Yanomamo Creation Myth as told by Dedeheiwa, 14 mins.
- 1976 Jaguar: A Yanomamo Twin-Cycle Myth 22 mins. Finalist, American Film Festival.
- The following 16 films are in a final edited stage. Standard optical prints of these films have been used in anthropology classes throughout the country for evaluation before they are produced for broad distribution. They are available for trial use from Documentary Educational Resources.
  - Children's Evening Play at Patanowa-teris, 8 mins.
  - A Woman Spins Cotton, 8 mins.
  - Morning Flowers, 20 mins.
  - Yanomamo Hekura Spirits, 14 mins.
  - Sand Play, 19-1/2 mins.
  - Children at Reahumou Play, 6 mins.
  - Mouth Wrestling, 5 mins.
  - Children Grooming for Lice in Front of Dedeheiwa's House, 7 mins.
  - Dedeheiwa Rests in His Garden, 6 mins.
  - Moawa Burns Felled Timber, 9 mins.
  - The River Mishimishimabowei-teri, 20 mins.
  - Children Making a Toy Hammock, 7 mins.
  - Kaobawa Trades with the Reyabobowei-teri, 8 mins.
  - Hunting Crickets, 10 mins. Young Shaman, 10 mins.
  - Children Playing in the Rain, 10-1/2 mins.
- 1966 Sound-synchronous Slide Tapes: A Social Studies Class of Jonathon Kozol; a Village School in Trinidad; Themis House Conference; the Environment of the Kalahari; Dodoth Sacrifice, all for Educational Development Center; and eight slide tapes in collaboration with Ruth MacDonald on the Yoruba of Nigeria for the Newton Public Schools.
- 1965 An Instructional Interview, 16mm, b/w, 22 minutes, with Jerome Bruner, Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard. This film about young children's cognitive perceptions of space and time was made to demonstrate new methods and techniques for ethnographic filming. Distributed by Education Development Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1963 Dodoth Morning, 16mm, color, 15 minutes. Pastoral Dodoth of northeastern Uganda. Distributed by Extension Media Center, University of California, Berkeley. Reviewed in American Anthropologist, vol 81, #1, March 1979.
Some reviews of the Yanomamo films
- Ocamo Is My Town American Anthropologist, Vol. 77 #1, March 1975, pages 195-8.
- Yanomamo: A Multidisciplinary Study The American Biology Teacher, September 1977 American Anthropologist 1972
- The Feast American Anthropologist, Vol. 73, #2, April 1971, pages 501-2
- A Man Called "Bee" New York Times, July 1976 (John O'Connor) New York Times, March 5, 1976 (A. H. Weiler) American Association for Advancement of Science Annual Meeting Program 1976 American Anthropologist, Vol. 78 #4, Dec. 1976, page 950
- The Ax Fight New York Times, July 1976 (John O'Connor) EFLA Evaluations 1977 New York Times, March 5, 1976 (A. H. Weiler) Journal of American Folklore, Spring 1979 American Anthropologist, Vol. 79 #3, Sept. 1977, page 747
- Magical Death New York Times, July 1976 (John O'Connor) American Anthropologist, 1972 Journal of American Folklore, Spring 1979 American Anthropologist, Vol. 77 #1, March 1975, page 179.
- Myth of Naro as Told by Kaobawa New York Times, March 5, 1976 (A. H. Weiler) Journal of American Folklore, Spring 1979
- Myth of Naro as Told by Dedeheiwa Journal of American Folklore, Spring 1979
- Children's Magical Death Journal of American Folklore, Spring 1979
- 1960-71
  In Preparation:
  - Five films on the Ata Tana Ai of eastern Flores, Indonesia with E. Douglas Lewis and Patsy Asch.
    - 1. Introduction to the Ata Tana Ai (still untitled)
    - 2. A Tana Ai Conversation: Elder Males Negotiate During the Gren Mahe
    - 3. Mula Puda: The Return of The Planted Mother. (Child Exchange)
    - 4. To Retire the Flesh and Cool the Blood: A Likon Mortuary Rite
  - Two films on Roti, Eastern Indonesia with James J. Fox and Patsy Asch:
    - 1. The Solidarity of a Clan: A Rotinese Funeral
    - 2. The Interrelated Use of Three Indonesian Languages (in a Rotinese Protestant Church Service) Research films on the Yanomamo, Balinese, Rotinese and the Ata Tana are being made for the Smithsonian Institution's Human Studies Film Archive.
  Unpublished Film
  Film Portraits of Anthropologists:
  - 1979 A portrait of Rodney Needham (in association with James J. Fox).
  - 1978 A portrait of Raymond Firth (in association with Anthony Forge).
  - 1977 A film of Margaret Mead returning to the village of Bajoeng Gede where she did much of her Balinese field work.
  - 1968 Alexander. The birth of an American boy. 16mm, b/w, 20 minutes
  - 1965 200 hours video tape recording (with Professor Jerome Bruner) of the curriculum development of "Man, A Course of Study", Educational Services, Inc.
  - 1962 One Day of Many. A Cape Breton Island farming family of 15 people. 16mm, b/w, 15 minutes.
  Photographic Exhibits:
  - 1987 & The Department of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California, 1988 Los Angeles
  - 1980 The Research School of Pacific Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
  - 1971 The Eastman Kodak Gallery on 5th Avenue, New York
  - 1967 The Research Institute for the Study of Man, New York
  - 1966 The National Library, Port of Spain, Trinidad
  - 1955 Columbia University, New York
  - 1951 California School of Fine Arts
  - 1950-92 Still photographs in numerous publications
  - 1950 & The Putney School, Putney, Vermont 1951
  Field Work Experience:
  - 1987-92 Yanomamo Development Project
  - 1987 Namibia, Southern Africa Ju/Wasi, !Kung, San, Bushmen Development Project
  - 1987 Southern Venezuela, Yanomamo Development Project
  - 1982 Flores, Eastern Indonesia. "Development of a Methodology for Using Film (16mm film transferred to video cassette) for Feedback to Generate New Data."
  - 1980 Flores, Eastern Indonesia. "Collaborative Ethnographic Filming and Field Research" with E. Douglas Lewis. The film is an integral part of Lewis' research but will also be used to produce instructional films.
  - 1978 & Bali, Indonesia, with Linda Connor. 1980
  - 1977 & Roti, Eastern Indonesia, with James J. Fox. From our research footage, 1978 we have completed two instructional films, THE WATER OF WORDS and SPEAR AND SWORD: A PAYMENT OF BRIDEWEALTH.
  - 1975 Afghanistan, with Asen Balikci. Co-director and cinematographer for several films. The first has been produced by the National Film Board of Canada, THE SONS OF HAMJI OMAR.
  - 1968 & Southern Venezuela, with Napoleon Chagnon. 39 films of the 1971 Yanomamo Indians, some with related written materials, have been produced and are in wide distribution.
  - 1966 Trinidad, West Indies. Studying and photographing in the village of Blanchisseuse, while supervising the Brandeis University graduate student field work program. An exhibit of the various uses of still photography in anthropological research was produced, including aerial photography, sequence photography and sound synchronous slide tapes using black and white and color film.
  - 1961 Karamoja, Uganda, with Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. Photographs taken were used in her book Warrior Herdsmen and a film, Dodoth Morning, was produced for the Peabody Museum, Harvard University.
  - 1952 Assistant, Cornell University's Anthropology, Sociology and Psychology Department's Sterling County Project, in Digby County, Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island, Canada.
  Grants:
  Over twenty grants have been obtained to do fieldwork and film.
  Conferences and Lectures:
  - Lectures and seminars: over 90 colleges and universities in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Great Britain and Paris, France Between 1968 and 1974, organized film programs at 3 of the American Anthropology Association meetings and gave numerous papers
  - Participated in the annual Conference on Visual Anthropology, Temple University, from 1969-1975
  - At USC, I have been a guest lecturer in courses in both the Anthropology Department and the School of Cinema-Television
  - 1991 Second "Eyes Across the Water Conference", Amsterdam. Jun. a: Keynote speach. "Does the Native Still Exist?" b: Patsy Asch and I organized and led a two day workshop on film and videotape for students from six different countries.
  - 1991 Festival Dei Popoli, Florence Italy. Exhibited Releasing the Spirits: A Village Nov. Cremation in Bali.
  - 1991 Margaret Mead Ethnographic Film Festival (at New York's Museum of Natural Sept. History. Exhibited Releasifng the Spirits: A Village Cremation in Bali
  - 1991 "Semana de Cine Etnologico" in Grenada Spain. For two days I showed my May films and lectured on my ethnographic research in Southern Venezuela and Bali Indonesia.
  - 1989 Retrospective showing of films, in December at Cinema Massimo, I Confini del L'uomo, Produced by the Archivio Nazionale Cinematografico della Resistenza in collaboration with Museo Nazionale del Cinema Festival dei Popoli and promosso dalla Regione Piemonte Assessorato alla Cultura Ministero del Turismo e dello Spettacolo, with il contributo della Cassa di Risparmio di Torino. The AX FIGHT, BRIDE SERVICE and THE FEAST, were exhibited. I arranged a weekend long retrospective of Jean Rouch's work for the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles community.
  - 1988-92 I was a judge for the prestigious "Golden Eagle (Documentary Film) Awards," sponsored by the American Society for Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
  - At the Royal Anthropological Institute "Film as Ethnography" Conference in Manchester England, September 24-28th, I gave a keynote paper, "The Ethics of Ethnographic Filmmaking," showed our film WATER OF WORDS and our new film SPEAR AND SWORD: A PAYMENT OF BRIDEWEALTH. I also gave a paper "Teaching Anthropological Filmmaking," in a workshop by that name.
  - 1990 US representative and speaker for "La Conferencia Internacional Sobre el Dec. Habitat y la Cultura Yanomami," in Caracas. The purpose of this first international conference on this subject, was to help establish land rights for the Yanomami in Southern Venezuela.
  - 1988 Lectured at the National Library of Venezuela in Caracas on "Los Yanomami en el Cine: Como se Fabrica la Imagen de un pueblo." Over 100 people from many different scholarly organizations in Caracas attended. An active discussion ensued after the lecture.
  - Key speaker at the Annual Kroeber Anthropological Society Symposium, Anthropology Department, University of California, Berkeley, March 31, 1989-April 1, 1989. --
  - I gave an evening symposium on "Ethnographic Film Studies of Trance, Possession and Healing" for the Department and the General Public. --
  - I also was a commentator and discussant for a seminar on the "Ethics of Representation." --
  - In a third session I showed our films "THE AX FIGHT, TAPIR DISTRIBUTION, THE SPEAR AND THE SWORD, AND THE WATER OF WORDS."
  - Principal speaker and discussant at the "XII Symposium of Man," Anthropology Department, California State University, Fullerton, April 15, 1989. --
  - Presented a paper entitled "Changing Perspectives in Ethnographic Film."
  - Lectured at the Anthropology Department, Melbourne University, August, 1989. --
  - "Rotinese Poetry and Economy: the essentials of life in an eastern Indonesian Society" and another lecture "The Gift and Social Cohesian: Case Studies from Indonesia and South America."
  - Attended the Humanities Research Centre Conference, Australian National University, on "The Visualization of Culture." I was a discussant on several papers and gave a paper "A Question of Method and Style: Can one make an accurate visual representation culture?"
  - Was a judge for the prestigious "Golden Eagle (documentary film) Awards," sponsored by the American Society for Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
  - 1987 Margaret Mead Ethnographic Film Festival, showed and lectured on two of our films The Medium is the Masseuse and The Ax Fight.
  - 1987 February: University of Colorado Boulder and Denver Campuses. Gave three lectures. Two departmental seminars, one on each campus on different aspects of using visual media as part of an ethnographic research methodology, and one large public evening lecture entitled, "The Resolution of Conflict Among the Yanomami of Southern Venezuela."
  - April, Reed College, Oregon, Department of Anthropology. 50 of my films were seen by the public on video cassette players over a five day period. In addition, I gave three lectures:
  - 1. "Alliance and Reciprocity: Features of the 'Gift' in Yanomami Society"
  - 2. "Magic, Possession and Healing in Bali."
  - 3. "Anthropological Research in Your Own Backyard: A Study of Ethnic Groups in Los Angeles."
  - May, Department of Anthropology, The University of California, Berkeley. I was a judge for the two day fieldwork project exhibit of Professor Bennetta Jules-Rosette.
  - May, I came back to the University from the east coast to help with the Barbara Myerhoff Memorial - Anthropos Film Festival for almost a week.
  - June, Marseille, France. The First International Workshop on Visual Anthropology. Gave a paper entitled "Necessary Components to the Study and Training of Visual Anthropologists at the University of Southern California's Graduate Program in Visual Anthropology"
  - July, Windhoek, Namibia. The University Centre for Studies in Namibia. Presentation entitled "Cultural Values and Identity as an Impediment to National Development."
  - July, Pretoria, South Africa. Presentation entitled "Cultural Pluralism and National Development" for the Political Affairs section of the South African Government, Parliament House, Pretoria, South Africa. This was an attempt on my part to present an argument to stall the Pretoria Government's plans to take over "Bushmanland" as a national Game Park.
  - July, Windhoek, Namibia. Took photographs for an exhibition entitled "Cultural Survival, Problems of Maintaining an Independent Cultural Tradition Within the Modern State" to support the Ju/wasi, !Kung, San (Bushmen) in their attempts to return to their traditional living areas in the desert and to continue to develop their culture, independent of the strong pressures of the South African Government.
  - September, October & November. Did research among the Yanomami of Southern Venezuela in order to develop a grant to make two perspective films with them on Development and the subject of Bias in Ethnographic Observation, Recording and Reporting.
  - November & December: Film Judge at the oldest and most prestigious documentary and ethnographic film festival in the World, "The Festival of the People," in Florence Italy.
  - December, Florence, Italy. Gave a paper at the European Soceity for Visual Anthropology entitled "Training Students in the Field of Visual Anthropology at a Masters Degree Program at the University of Southern California." In addition I showed my new film THE WATER OF WORDS.
  - December, New Delhi and Jodhpur, India. At the First Conference on Visual Anthropology in India, I gave a paper: "Ethics and Ethnographic Filmmaking" and showed my film THE WATER OF WORDS.
  - Chicago, IL. American Anthropology Association Meetings. I helped to organize a workshop/seminar on the use of visual media in teaching anthropology. nancy Lutkehaus and several of our graduate students gave this workshop.
  - University of Southern California, Department of Fine Arts. Family exhibit of photographs, drawings and paintings, from China, Japan, California and ethnic Los Angeles, by Alex, Timothy, Gregory and Patsy Asch. China:
  - 1986 II was asked to go to China for a month, with all expenses paid to June lecture and give an intensive workshop in Ethnographic Film and to help provide the foundation for Visual Anthropology in China. Patsy Asch and I worked very hard to do this and judging from the correspondence our work was a success. (See enclosed letters). We were sponsored by the department of Ethnology at the Central Institute of Nationalities, the University that has a mandate to study and document China's 55 diverse ethnic cultures.
  - 1986 I was asked to go to Japan for two weeks to attend a Conference and Oct. give a paper ("Film in Anthropological Research") for a book to help provide the foundation for Visual Anthropology in Japan. This was the Tenth International Symposium of the Division of Ethnology sponsored by the Taniguchi Foundation at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka. The Symposium was entitled "Ethnographic Film: Cinematographic Theory and New Dimensions".
  - 1984- Directed and assisted in directing workshops at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropologist (every year to the present) on the use of film in teaching anthropology
  - 1983-pres All morning/afternoon workshops. The American Anthropology Association meetings on "The Use of Film and Related written materials in Teaching Anthropology."
  - 1983 Continued lecturing many times a year at colleges and universities in the U.S. and Europe, and at The American Anthropology Association, the Margaret Mead Ethnographic Film Conference, and Harvard's Summer Program with Emilie de Brigard and Jean Rouch and at other professional meetings.
  - 1983 Lectured at the Department of Anthropology, Cambridge University, Dec. Cambridge, England on "The Uses of Ethnographic Film in Anthropological Research"
  - 1983 Participant, lecturer, discussant and exhibitor at the "International Dec. Ethnographic Film Seminar" in Paris, directed by Jean Rouch. I later showed new Ethnographic Film Works to the public at the Palais de Chaillot at the Musee de L'Homme
  - 1983 The American Anthropology Association Annual Meetings in Chicago. Nov. Exhibited and discussed mine and Napoleon Chagnon's film Jaguar: A Yanomamo Twin-Cycle Myth in the Seminar "Discourse, Context and Performance in Lowland, South American Mythology" Gave paper in the Symposium "Anthropological Teaching and Reporting" entitled "New Methods for Making Anthropological Film for Teaching and Research". Exhibited Water of Words and A Balinese Massage.
  - 1983 Lectured for 8 hours on Anthropology and Film at Chicago's Field Museum Nov.
  - 1983 The American Anthropology Association - gave presentations: Nov. 1. "The Use of Biography in Ethnographic Research 2. A full day workshop in The Use of Film in Teaching Anthropology 3. Exhibiting and discussing Jero Tapakan: Stories From the Life of a Balinese Healer 4. Margaret Mead: Her Life and Work; A commentary by one of her students.
  - 1983 The African Studies Association. African Humanities: The Impact of Oct. Western Conceptualizations (panel) "Ethics in Ethnographic Filmmaking"
  - 1983 THE MARGARET MEAD ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM FESTIVAL. The Sept. American Museum of Natural History. Exhibited The Medium is the Masseuse; Jero Tapakan: Stories in the Life of a Balinese Healer and The Water of Words
  - 1983 The 11th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological August Sciences (ICAES) in Vancouver. Organized and co-chaired a symposium entitled "In and Beyond the Classroom, Film in Communicating Anthropology: The Role of the Written Ethnographic Film Monograph" Gave a paper "The Written Component of Film and Research" Showed all four new films on Balinese Possession, magic and healing.
  - 1983 Harvard University full day seminar on "The Use of Ethnographic Film August in Anthropological Research"
  - 1982 The MARGARET MEAD ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM FESTIVAL. The New York American Museum of Natural History. Exhibited and lectured with the two films A Balinese Trance Seance and A Balinese Trance Seance Observed
  - 1982 Guest Lecturer American Museum of Natural History's Department March of Anthropology Public Lecture Series. "The Water of Words", a film and lecture about the intersection of myth, poetry and identity with economic activities on the island of Roti
  - 1980 Participated in C.N.R.S.'s Des Regards Compares 11 Nov.
  - 1979 Jean Rouch, Director of the Comite International des Film de L'Homme, Nov. at the Musee de L'Homme invited me to present all 38 films of the Yanomamo Indians for critical evaluation at the 3e Recontres Internationales de L'audio-visual Scientifique organized by France's National Scientific Research Institution, C.N.R.S.
  - 1979 Showed 30 Yanomamo films for a period of two weeks at the Georges Nov. Pompidou Center and at the Cinematheque Francais in the Palais de Chaillot
  - 1976 The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York--exhibited 3 March Yanomamo films
  - 1975 American Anthropology Association. Judith Shapiro and I gave an Nov. entire afternoon session entitled "Male and Female Roles in Yanomamo Society, a Study in Character and Contrast" and showed 8 new Yanomamo films.
  - 1973 Museum of Modern Art, New York--exhibited 3 Yanomamo films May Notice of Recognition
  - 1984 Was asked to have all of the 100,000' of Yanomamo footage, and all the Bali, Roti and Flores footage (100,000') archived at the Smithsonian Institution's new National Ethnographic Film Archive, a project we will be working on for several years
  - 1983 USC Phi Kappa Phi award, "Honorable Mention"
  Professional Associations
  - 1967 Founder and Member of the Board, Documentary Educational Resources.
  - 1969- Fellow: The American Anthropological Association
  - 1985- On the Board of the International Commission d'Anthropologie Visuelle, with its headquarters in Montreal.
  - 1985- Review Editor for the Journal, Visual Anthropology
  - 1970 Member The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britan and Ireland.
  - 1970-75 Member. Board of Directors, The National Anthropological Film Research Institute; member of its Committee on the National Archives; and its Committee for the Making of Ethnographic Films
  - 1973-75 Board of Advisors, Boston Center for the Arts
  - 1973-74 Board of Advisors, University Film Study Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  - 1974- Board of Advisors, Psychological Cinema Register, The Pennsylvania State University
  - 1973-75 Advisory Committee, Society for the Anthropology of Visual Communication
  - 1975- Board of Directors, Society for the Anthropology of Visual Communication
  - 1976- Full Member ACS (Australian Cinematographers Society)
  - 1979 Vice-President, Canberra Branch ACS
  - 1983- Board of Directors Society for Visual Anthropology, The American Anthropology Association
  - 1984- Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Visual Anthropology Published by Harwood Academic Publisher, London.
  - 1987- Founding advisor and member Funvena (Fundaci�n Venezolana Parala Investigaci�n Antrop�logica -- Venezuelan Foundation for Anthropological Research.
  - 1991 Member of the Board, The Margaret Mead Ethnographic Film Festival, The American Museum of Natural History, New York.