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Title The ax fight / a film by Timothy Asch and Napoleon A. Chagnon ; edited by Paul E. Bugos, Jr
Published Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, [2014]
1975

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Description 1 online resource (1 streaming video (32 min.)
Series Ethnographic video online
Summary A four-part analysis of a fight in a Yanomamo Indian village between local descent groups. Includes an unedited record of the event; a slow-motion replay of the fight; a discussion of the kinship structure of the fight; and an edited version
Analysis Yanomamö
Politics
Negotiations
Kin relationships
Violence
Cultural identity
Rural population
Tribal and national groups
Event Filmed in 1971
Notes Subtitles in Spanish
Subject Yanomamo Indians.
Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Social life and customs
Indians of South America -- Venezuela -- Social life and customs
Indians of South America -- Social life and customs.
Yanomamo Indians.
Brazil.
Venezuela.
Genre/Form Streaming video
documentary film.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires.
Films ethnographiques.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Chagnon, Napoleon A., 1938-2019
Asch, Timothy
Bugos, Paul