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Karl Heider (born January 21, 1935) is an American visual anthropologist.
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Karl Heider (born January 21, 1935) is an American visual anthropologist.
Heider was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. [1] Heider is the son of psychologists Fritz and Grace (née Moore) Heider. He had two brothers; John and Stephan.
After spending two years at Williams College, Heider transferred to Harvard College where he earned his B.A. in anthropology. Heider then spent a year touring Asia on a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship provided by Harvard. [2] Returning to Harvard in 1958, Heider went on to earn an M.A. in 1959 and Ph.D. in 1966. [3]
He was married to the psychologist Eleanor Rosch with whom he studied the Dani people. [4] [5] The couple divorced in the late 1970s. [6]
Heider's work ranged from psychological anthropology to visual anthropology. [7]
It has included going into the West Papua region in the 1960s and 1990s, [8] as well as producing works on ethnographic film making [9] and writing on Indonesian cinema. [10]
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