Steven Feld
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Steven Feld's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology Stanford University
- Masters Anthropology Stanford University
- Bachelors Music University of California, Santa Cruz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Steven Feld is an American ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, and linguist, who worked for many years with the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea. He earned a MacArthur Fellowship in 1991. Early life Feld was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 20, 1949. He graduated with a BA cum laude at Hofstra University in anthropology in 1971. He first went to the Bosavi territory in 1976, accompanied by anthropologist Edward L. Schieffelin, whose recordings of the Bosavi inspired him to pursue this work. His work there fulfilled his dissertation for his PhD from Indiana University in 1979 .
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