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American filmmaker and anthropologist
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Female
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Birth:
16 February 1935(Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, U.S.A.)
Death:
7 January 1985(Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A.)
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Biography
Introduction
Barbara Myerhoff (February 16, 1935 – January 7, 1985) was an American anthropologist and filmmaker, and founder of the Center for Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California.
Biography
Born in Cleveland Ohio, Myerhoff's work with the Jewish community in Venice, California was documented in the 1976 ethnographic film Number Our Days, directed by Lynne Littman. Number Our Days was published in book form in 1979, and 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
Filmography
- Number Our Days (1976)
- In Her Own Time (1986)