Jonathan Friedman (born April 7, 1946) is an American

anthropologist An anthropologist is a scientist engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropologists study aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms, values ...

. He earned his Ph.D. at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

in 1972. He is professor emeritus of Anthropology at

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Es ...

and Director of Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He is an editorial board member of the journal '' Anthropological Theory''. Friedman has done most of his research in

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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

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, *

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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 forewordwith Scott Lash(eds) ''Modernity and identity'', Blackwell, Oxford, 1992 *''Consumption and Identity''. London: Harwood Academic Press, 1994 * *''The anthropology of global systems: Modernities, class and the contradictions of globalization''. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press 2007

External links

IRIS Institute at the EHESS (Official site)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Friedman, Jonathan Living people 1946 births 21st-century American anthropologists 20th-century American anthropologists University of San Diego faculty Columbia University alumni