Ward Keeler

Ward Keeler
EducationCornell University, A.B.
University of Chicago, M.A., Ph.D.
OccupationsAcademic, Anthropologist
EmployerThe University of Texas at Austin

Ward Keeler is an American anthropologist who conducted fieldwork in Java in Indonesia during the New Order area.

He worked in predominantly Surakarta cultural areas, and studied wayang as a means of understanding specific manifestation of Javanese ways of thinking.

His book Javanese, a cultural approach was a Javanese language text for English speakers that provided learners with language expressions for learning, rather than elaborate on the complexities of hierarchy within the language and culture.

More recently he has studied Burmese culture

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Notes

  1. ↑ "Arts".
  2. ↑ "Professor Ward Keeler Raps About Burmese Rap".
  3. ↑ Keeler, Ward (2009). "What's Burmese about Burmese rap? Why some expressive forms go global". American Ethnologist. 36: 2–19. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.01106.x.
  4. ↑ "Arts".