The Ax Fight

Name: The Ax Fight
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1975-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 30 min
Rating: 5.7

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.