ABSTRACT
TIM OTHY ASCH is an anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker. In 1950-1951, he studied at the California School of Fine Arts and later ap prenticed with Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and Minor White. He received his undergraduate degree in anthropology at Columbia University in 1959, having worked with Margaret Mead, Conrad Arensberg, and Mortin Fried. He studied at the African Studies Program at Boston University and read an thropology from T.O. Beidelman at Harvard University, obtaining his mas ters degree in anthropology from Boston University in 1964. He has taught anthropology at Brandeis University, New York University, Harvard Uni versity and has been a senior research fellow at the Australian National University's Institute for Advanced Studies' Department of Anthropology as well as a Visiting Research Scholar at McQuare University’s Department of Anthropology near Sydney, Australia. He is now Professor of Anthropol ogy at the University of Southern California where, with several of his col leagues, he directs the Graduate Program in Visual Anthropology. At pre sent, he is the editor for the American Anthropology Association’s Society for Visual Anthropology. He was co-founder, with John Marshall, of Doc umentary Educational Resources and in 1973-1974 Adjunct Associate Pro fessor of Film and Assistant Director of Brandeis University’s Film and Media Communications Program. He has made, or has helped to make, over 70 ethnographic films, several of which have won international awards and he has written extensively on ethnographic filmmaking. His latest work, in collaboration with Linda Connor and Patsy Asch, entitled JE R O TAPAKAN, BALINESE HEALER, has been published by Cambridge University Press. Currently, he is making a film of an Ata Tana Ai, society wide, purification ritual (the island of Flores in Eastern Indonesia) with Douglas Lewis and Patsy Asch, and a film about a Balinese village crema tion with Linda Connor and Patsy Asch. He is going back to the Venezue lan jungle to continue his earlier studies of the Yanomamo Indians of southern Venezuela.
