Heider was born in
Northampton, Massachusetts.[1] Heider is the son of psychologists
Fritz and Grace (née Moore) Heider. He had two brothers; John and Stephan.
After spending two years at
Williams College, Heider transferred to
Harvard College where he earned his B.A. in anthropology. 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. in 1959 and Ph.D. in 1966.[3]
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.[10]
^The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea. Aldine Publishing. Grand Valley Dani: Peaceful Warriors (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology). Wadsworth Publishing (3rd ed.).
^Heider, Karl G (November 2006), Ethnographic film (Rev. ed.), University of Texas Press (published 2006),
ISBN978-0-292-71458-8