Professor Steven Feld FBA

Acoustemology and anthropology of sound in rainforest Papua New Guinea, Pastoral Southern Europe and urban West Africa; ethnographic poetics; indigenous representation in global media; documentary photography and cinema
A photo of Steven Feld FBA. Photo by Magali De Ruyter
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA
Subjects
Anthropology, Music

Current post

University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Briony Fer FBA

Modern and contemporary art; abstraction; special interests in the legacies of the constructive avant-gardes and in contemporary art; the relationship between art and theory; new critical perspectives on art

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Professor Susanne Küchler FBA

The anthropology of material aesthetics, mathematics and memory; The nature of innovation and the cognitive work of images, taking insights from ethnographic research in Oceania to the laboratory context of materials science

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