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.
Javanese, a cultural approach Athens :Ohio University Center for International Studies,1984.
Symbolic dimensions of the Javanese house Melbourne, Vic. :Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University,1983.
Fighting for democracy on a heap of jewels. Clayton, Vic. :Monash Asia Institute,1997.
Mangunwijaya, Y. B.,1929- Durga/Umayi :a novel /Y. B. Mangunwijaya; translated by Ward Keeler. Seattle;London :University of Washington Press in association with Singapore University Press, c2004.
Father puppeteer Chicago, Ill. :University of Chicago,1982.
Puppet theater of the Javanese; Puppet theater of the Sundanese / Kathy Foley. New York, N.Y. :Festival of Indonesia Foundation, c1991.