ABSTRACT
In the last hundred years, the development of audio and film recording technologies created new opportunities both for exposition and analysis in the social sciences (Fewkes 1890; Hilton-Simpson and Haeseler 1925; Gessell 1935; Dyhrenfurth 1952; de Brigard 1975). In the past, these technologies contributed insights into practical and theoretical problems in the social sciences. This chapter describes the uses of a new expository and analytical technology in anthropology, CD-ROM, and one of the first published works using that technology. Yanomamö Interactive (Biella, Chagnon and Seaman 1997) offers a variety of educational and research documents about Tim Asch’s and Napoleon Chagnon’s film masterpiece, The Ax Fight (1975). The film and Yanomamö Interactive are about conflict resolution and village dynamics among the Yanomamö of Venezuela. The two works also explore the vagaries of ethnographic analysis and explanation.
