The Ax Fight
The Ax Fight

The Ax Fight

5.7
January 1, 1975
30m
Documentary

Overview

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.

Directed by: Napoleon Chagnon, Timothy Asch

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