The Ax Fight (1975)

Directed by

Tim Asch, Napoleon Chagnon

Genre

documentary

Country

Venezuela

Runtime

30 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film documents a real conflict between Yanomami people in a Venezuelan village. It shows the events as they unfold without narration or commentary.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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