Karl Heider (born January 21, 1935) is an American visual anthropologist.
Heider then spent a year touring Asia on a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship provided by Harvard.
[2] Returning to Harvard in 1958, Heider went on to earn an M.A.
[3] He was married to the psychologist Eleanor Rosch with whom he studied the Dani people.
[7] It has included going into the West Papua region in the 1960s and 1990s,[8] as well as producing works on ethnographic film making[9] and writing on Indonesian cinema.