Michael Edward Bell

Michael Edward Bell
Also known as	Michael Edward Bell
Roles	Oral historian; Scholar; Photographer
Based in	United States
Subjects	History & Remembrance; Migration & Diaspora; Celebrations & Life Passages

Folklorist and fieldworker who documented Cambodian community life in Lowell, Massachusetts for the Lowell Folklife Project.

Michael Edward Bell was a fieldworker on the Lowell Folklife Project, a documentation survey of communities in Lowell, Massachusetts whose records are held by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The project's finding aid credits him with photographs, colour slides and interviews, including recorded interviews with members of Lowell's Cambodian community and documentation of a Cambodian New Year celebration at the Trairatanaram Temple. (Library of Congress, Lowell Folklife Project collection finding aid; Library of Congress, Interview with Narong Hul, Lowell, Massachusetts; Internet Archive record, Narong Hul Oral History Interview)

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