Barbara Myerhoff
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American filmmaker and anthropologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Barbara Myerhoff was an American anthropologist, filmmaker, and founder of the Center for Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California. Throughout her career as an anthropologist, Barbara Myerhoff contributed to major methodological trends which have since become standards of social cultural anthropology. These methods include reflexivity, narrative story telling, and anthropologists' positioning as social activists, commentaries, and critics whose work extends beyond the academy.
Barbara Myerhoff's Published Works
Published Works
- Number Our Days (1979) (417)
- Remembered Lives: The Work of Ritual, Storytelling, and Growing Older (1992) (120)
- Peyote hunt. The sacred journey of the Huichol Indians (1973) (113)
- 3. Life History Among the Elderly: Performance, Visibility, and Re-Membering (1982) (54)
- The transformation of consciousness in ritual performances: some thoughts and questions (1990) (46)
- The Journal as activity and genre: Or listening to the Silent Laughter of Mozart (1980) (35)
- Life history as integration. An essay on an experimental model. (1975) (33)
- Life's career--aging : cultural variations on growing old (1979) (33)
- Field Observations of Middle Class “Gangs” (1964) (32)
- Number our days : culture and community among elderly Jews in an American ghetto (1994) (26)
- Symbol and Politics in Communal Ideology: Cases and Questions (1975) (24)
- Changing Images of the Family (1981) (23)
- The Doctor as Culture Hero: The Routinization of Charisma (1965) (20)
- The feminization of America : how women's values are changing our public and private lives (1985) (18)
- Life History as Integration. (1975) (11)
- The Revolution as a Trip: Symbol and Paradox (1971) (10)
- Primary and Formal Aspects of Family Organization: Group Consensus, Problem Perception, and Adolescent School Success (1965) (8)
- The Deer-Maize-Peyote Symbol Complex among the Huichol Indians of Mexico (1970) (5)
- New Styles of Humanism (1969) (3)
- The Doctor as Culture Hero: The Shaman of Rincon (1966) (3)
- Peyote and Huichol Worldview: The Structure of a Mystic Vision (1975) (2)
- INTRA-FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND ADOLESCENT SCHOOL ADJUSTMENT. FINAL REPORT. (1967) (1)
- Folklore and Film: Lyrical Gerontology (1981) (0)
- Bobbes and Zeydes (1978) (0)
- USC in May (1972) (0)
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