senior, Manya, who could not forgive her for leaving her out of the film, and of Rebekkah, who initially, would not sign the play’s release form unless her and her husband’s real names were used. To win them over, Myerhoff argued and cajoled, telling them that the increased publicity would bring more opportunity for them and other seniors. She also gave gifts and companionship so that they would work with her. Reflecting upon these negotiations, Myerhoff concluded that the seniors would rather be represented in ways they did not completely agree with, than not represented at all. Myerhoff revealed that decisions of subject representation required continual negotiation. By explicating the power relations in her collaboration with the seniors, after Number Our Days was published, she further revealed the book’s constructions and shed light upon the politics of representation in the anthropologist/subject encounter. During this time, Myerhoff developed a graduate program in visual anthropology and made it the emphasis of the anthropology program She then harnessed departmental support to start the first master degree program in visual anthropology. In this program she collaborated with the USC film school and offered courses in film production along with anthropological theory. She also recruited the noted ethnographic filmmaker Timothy Asch to teach at USC. Myerhoff’s next and last project began in 1982 with studying and filming the Jewish community in Fairfax, California. Initially, she intended to focus on the Russian Jewish community and the ways these Jews adopted observance, as compared to a variety of Jewish identity groups who lived in that area. In 1984, however, Myerhoff was diagnosed with cancer, and as a result, changed the direction of the project. Instead of focusing solely on the variety of Jews, Myerhoff, and collaborator Lynn Littman, turned the camera on her own search for healing with the spiritual guidance of the Fairfax Lubavitch Hasidic community. She explained that because of her illness, she had to use her work to speak directly to her life. Before she completed the film, In Her Own Time, Myerhoff died in Los Angeles of lung cancer on January 7, 1985, at age 49. Works Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians (1974) "We Don't Wrap Herring in a Printed Page: Fusions, Fiction and Continuity in Secular Ritual" in Secular Ritual: Forms and Meanings edited by Sally Falk Moore and Barbara Myerhoff (1977) "Bobbes and Zeydes: Old and New