Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film

by Lewis,E.D

• ISBN13: 9780415327749
• ISBN10: 0415327741
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Beautifully illustrated and featuring articles from many of Asch's friends, colleagues, and collaborators as well as an important interview with Asch himself, this is an ideal introduction to his work.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
List of contributors	xiii
Acknowledgments	xix
Preface	xxi
1 Introduction: Timothy Asch in America and Australia	1	(16)
E.D. LEWIS
2 An ethnographic gaze: scenes in the anthropological life of Timothy Asch	17	(40)
DOUGLAS HARPER
3 Man, a course of study: situating Tim Asch's pedagogy and ethnographic films	57	(18)
NANCY C.LUTKEHAUS
4 At the beginning: Tim Asch in the early 1960s	75	(8)
PETER LOIZOS
5 Efforts and events in a long collaboration: working with Tim Asch on ethnographic films on Roti in eastern Indonesia	83	(14)
JAMES J. FOX
6 From event to ethnography: film-making and ethnographic research in Tana 'Ai, Flores, eastern Indonesia	97	(26)
E.D. LEWIS
7 The consequences of conation: pedagogy and the inductive films of an ethical film-maker	123	(26)
GREG ACCIAIOLI
8 Producing culture: shifting representations of social theory in the films of Tim Asch	149	(14)
FAYE GINSBURG
9 Subjects, images, voices: representations of gender in the films of Timothy Asch	163	(22)
LINDA H. CONNOR AND PATSY ASCH
10 Timothy Asch, the rise of visual anthropology, and the Human Studies Film Archives	185	(20)
JOHN P. HOMIAK
11 Tim Asch, otherness, and film reception	205	(24)
WILTON MARTÍNEZ
12 What really happened: a reassessment of The Ax Fight	229	(10)
BILL NICHOLS
13 The Ax Fight on CD-ROM	239	(24)
PETER BIELLA
14 Person, event, and the location of the cinematic subject in Timothy Asch's films on Indonesia	263	(20)
E.D. LEWIS
Appendix: Writings and films of Timothy Asch	283	(8)
Index	291