Jonathan Friedman
Jonathan Friedman (born April 7, 1946, New York City, New York) is a prominent American anthropologist. He earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1972. He is professor of Anthropology at University of California, San Diego and directeur d'études at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales as well as one of the main editors of the journal Anthropological Theory, currently published by SAGE Publications. Friedman has done most of his research in Hawaii and the Republic of Congo.
Current Research
- Dynamics of tribal societies,
- Cultural identity and global processes,
- Global systemic anthropology,
- Transformation of the nation state,
- Multiculturalism and migration,
- Upland Southeast Asia,
- Oceania.
Publications
- System, structure and contradiction in the evolution of "Asiatic" social formations, National Museum of Copenhagen, 1979 [+ 2nd edition: Altamira Press 1998, with a new foreword]
- with Scott Lash(eds) Modernity and identity, Blackwell, Oxford, 1992
- Consumption and Identity. London: Harwood Academic Press, 1994
- Globalization and Violence: Vol III. Globalizing War and Intervention. London: Sage 2006
- The anthropology of global systems: Modernities, class and the contradictions of globalization. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press 2007
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New York City, New York, USA |
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