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

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

. He earned his Ph.D. at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1972. He is professor emeritus of Anthropology at

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is ...

and Director of Studies at the

École des hautes études en sciences sociales The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...

. He is an editorial board member of the journal ''

Anthropological Theory ''Anthropological Theory'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Anthropology. The journal's editors are Julia Eckert (University of Bern), Nina Glick Schiller (University of Manchester, Max Planck In ...

''. Friedman has done most of his research in

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and the

Republic of Congo The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa to the w ...

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 American anthropologists University of San Diego faculty Columbia University alumni