Barbara Myerhoff
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Barbara Myerhoff (1935 - 1985), anthropologist, filmmaker, and founder of the Center for Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California.
Myerhoff was a renowned scholar in the field of visual anthropology, heading the University of Southern California's anthropology department in Los Angeles where she lived and raised her family. A creative and extremely popular professor, she urged her students to use the tools of anthropology to question and better understand their own lives and the lives of others. But Myerhoff's influence also reached far beyond academia, and she touched a broad audience with her books and films.
Myerhoff 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 when Myerhoff was diagnosed with cancer. She died in 1985.
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[edit] Awards
1977: Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for Number Our Days.
[edit] See also
[edit] 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
[edit] External links
- Jewish Women's Archive Women of Valor exhibit on Barbara Myerhoff
- Barbara Myerhoff at the Internet Movie Database
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