- Expressive Culture (346)
- Anthropology of World Beat (444/544)
- Anthropology of Music and Sound (448/548)
- New Guinea Representations (449/549)
- Anthropology of the Senses (530)
- Anthropology of Place (530)
Hofstra University, Anthropology and Music, BA summa cum laude 1971
Indiana University, Anthropology, Linguistics, Ethnomusicology, PhD 1979
Dissertation: “Sound and Sentiment”
Cultural poetics and politics; aesthetics, sound, senses and media; world music; globalization, cosmopolitanisms and modernities; place; Papua New Guinea, West Africa
(CD book) Por Por: Honk Horn Music of Ghana (Smithsonian Folkways, 2007)
(ed. and trans.) Ciné-ethnography: Jean Rouch (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003)
(CD book) Bells and Winter Festivals of Greek Macedonia (Smithsonian Folkways, 2002)
(3-CD book) Bosavi: Rainforest Music from Papua New Guinea (Smithsonian Folkways, 2001)
(Bambi Schieffelin and Feld) Kaluli-Tok Pisin-English Dictionary (Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University, 2000