People - Faculty

Steven Feld
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music (Ethnology)
At UNM since Fall 2003

feld@unm.edu
505.277-1539

Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM since 2002

  • 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)

Education

Hofstra University, Anthropology and Music, BA summa cum laude 1971
Indiana University, Anthropology, Linguistics, Ethnomusicology, PhD 1979
Dissertation: “Sound and Sentiment”


Research

Cultural poetics and politics; aesthetics, sound, senses and media; world music; globalization, cosmopolitanisms and modernities; place; Papua New Guinea, West Africa


Selected Publications: Books

(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


Maxwell Museum
Human Nature
To support the Anthropology Newsletter, the department has designed the bag and mug pictured above. The 12 oz mug, in black and red, is very attractive and the shopping bag, made of 100% recyclable materials, is machine washable (do not put in dryer) and has been manufactured to reduce our use of plastic bags from the grocery store. You may receive either item for a donation of the following amount: Mug $15.00, Bag $12.50 (prices include shipping within US)
© The University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology, 2008.
Site Deisgned by Gillingham Studios