Barbara Myerhoff

Barbara Myerhoff (1935–1985), anthropologist, filmmaker, and founder of the Center for Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California.

Myerhoff [1] is best known for her work with the Jewish community in Venice, California. This was first documented in the 1976 ethnographic film Number Our Days, directed by Lynne Littman. She published the book Number Our Days in 1979. Number Our Days was performed as a play at the Mark Taper Forum in 1982.

Her next project, In Her Own Time was taken over by Lynne Littman and Vikram Jayanti when Myerhoff was diagnosed with cancer. She died in 1985.

Awards

1977: Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for Number Our Days.

See also

• Tim Asch
• Jay Ruby
• Stuart Goldman

Works

Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians. Cornell U., 1974.

References

• Ruby, Jay. (ed.) "Introduction, by Barbara Myerhoff and Jay Ruby." A Crack in the Mirror: Reflexive Perspectives in Anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
• Barbara Myerhoff papers
• Legends Asch and Myerhoff Inspire A New Generation of Visual Anthropologists - article by Susan Andrews [2]

External links

• Women of Valor exhibit on Barbara Myerhoff at the Jewish Women's Archive
• Barbara Myerhoff at the Internet Movie Database