This traditionally ethnographic sequence film focuses on the negotiations betwen representatives of two families during a payment of bridewealth...

The Ax Fight (1975) is an ethnographic film by anthropologist and filmmaker Tim Asch and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon about a conflict in a...

The people of the Tana 'Ai region of Flores, Indonesia live in seven ceremonial domains, of which Wai Brama is the largest and the oldest. The...

A short documentary film by ethnographic filmmaker Tim Asch that shows young members of the Yanomamo Indian tribe sharpening their arrow-shooting...

Pretending to be shamans, a group of young boys imitate their fathers, blowing ashes into each other's noses and chanting to the hekura spirits.

This film examines the ecology and poetry of everyday life. Two Rotinese narrate this film, each offering his perception of the importance of the...

Unlike many spirit mediums, Jero Tapakan practices as a masseuse once every three days, when possession is not auspicious. This film focuses on...

Cremation rites are the most elaborate rites of passage performed by Balinese householders. Poor families may wait years before accumulating enough...

This film illustrates the field techniques used by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Michigan in collaboration with...

One of the few ethnographic films in which the anthropologist appears as one of the subjects - a lively introduction to the nature of fieldwork...

In 1981, anthropologist Linda Connor and filmmakers Tim and Patsy Asch returned to Bali with video cassette recordings of A Balinese Trance Seance....

Yanomamo feasts are ceremonial, social, economic, and political events. They are occasions for men to adorn their bodies with paint and feathers...

Bringing offerings of rice, flowers, and woven coconut leaves, clients visit Jero in her household shrine to determine the cause of their son's...

Jero, who know sustains a lively practice as both medium and masseuse, recalls her earlier poverty and despair as a farmer, and how she fled her...