Catalogue des films de « Timothy Asch »

Bringing offerings of rice, flowers, and woven coconut leaves, clients visit Jero in her household shrine to determine the cause of their son's death. Jero lights an incense brazier, sprinkles holy water, and recites mantras as preliminaries to...

Jero Tapakan est médium et masseuse dans un petit village du centre de Bali. Quatre films, tournés entre 1978 et 1980, qui lui sont consacrés offrent un aperçu de la vitalité de la médecine traditionelle. Tous les trois jours, quand les...

Unlike many spirit mediums, Jero Tapakan practices as a masseuse once every three days, when possession is not auspicious. This film focuses on Jero's treatment of Ida Bagus, a member of the nobility from a neighbouring town. Jero has been...

In 1980, anthropologist Linda Connor and filmmakers Tim and Patsy Asch returned to Bali with videocassette recordings of "A Balinese Trance Séance". The resulting film presents some of her reactions to Connor as she watched and listened to...

A fight broke out in Mishimishimabowei-teri on the second day of Chagnon and Asch's stay in this village in 1971. The conflict developed between the villagers of Mishimishimabowei-teri and their visitors from another village. The visitors had...

Les Yanomami vivent dans la forêt tropicale du sud du Vénézuela et du nord du Brésil. Ils pratiquent une économie de subsistance mixte : cueillette, chasse, jardinage. Environ 15 000 Yanomami vivent dans quelques 150 villages dispersés. Ce...

This is one of the few ethnographic films in which the anthropologist appears as one of the subjects, and as such it is a lively introduction to the nature of fieldwork. Napoleon Chagnon, who lived among the Yanomamö for 36 months over a period...

"Magical Death" se présente en deux parties : La première séquence montre comment Dedeheiwa utilise les drogues hallucinogènes et appelle les esprits hekura pour l'aider à soigner les malades de son village. Il soigne les gens en combinant...

Yanomamo feasts are ceremonial, social, economic, and political events. They are occasions for men to adorn their bodies with paint and feathers, to display their strength in dance and ritualized aggression; for trading partnerships to be...