Barbara Myerhoff
(1935-1985)
American filmmaker and anthropologist
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Barbara Myerhoff (February 16, 1935 – January 7, 1985) 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.
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16 February 1935 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
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| Died |
7 January 1985 (aged 49) Burbank, California, U.S.
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| Zodiac | Aquarius |
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