The Ax Fight

5.7
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 30 min
  • Premiere: 1975. January 1.

The Ax Fight (1975) is an ethnographic film by anthropologist and filmmaker Tim 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.

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Timothy Asch

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Timothy Asch

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