The Ax Fight

The Ax Fight (1975)

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Documentary
  • Runtime

    0h 30m

  • Language

    EN

  • Production Countries

    Venezuela

  • Release Date

    1975-01-01

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.

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