proponent of using film as a research and archive tool. Marriage and family Asch married Patricia Wood. Together they acted as partners with other anthropologists in Afghanistan and Indonesia to produce films widely used in education and research. They had four children: two daughters, Caya and Kim (who was adopted from South Korea) and sons Gregory (also known as DJ Olive) and Alexander. References Obituaries Zsa Zsa Gershick, "ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMMAKING PIONEER TIMOTHY ASCH DIES", USC News, 17 Oct 1994, University of Southern California Further reading and viewing Film Jayasinhji Jhala and Lindsey Powell. Morning with Asch. - 45 min. documentary (1995) Text Abrams, Ira. "Anthropological Filmmaking: Anthropological Perspectives on the Production of Film and Video for General Public Audiences." Visual Anthropology Review. 5.2, December 1989: 18-24. Barbash, Ilisa and Lucien Taylor. Cross-cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Heider, Karl G. Ethnographic Film (Revised Edition). Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Japenga, Ann. "Visual Anthropologist in the Director's Chair", Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1987: Section 5, page 1. Lewis, E. Douglas. Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film. New York: Routledge, 2003 Ruby, Jay. "Out of Sync: The Cinema of Tim Asch", in Picturing Culture: Essays on Film and Anthropology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Jay Ruby, "Some Hurried Thoughts about Tim Asch and Patrick Tierney", Darkness in El Dorado Blog "Finding Aid to the Papers of Timothy Asch", National Anthropological Archives, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution External links Timothy Asch: Biography 2, Documentary Educational Resources , Filmography Columbia College (New York) alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of Southern California people Cultural anthropologists 1932 births 1994 deaths Visual anthropologists The Putney School alumni 20th-century American anthropologists Boston University alumni