Jonathan Friedman

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Notes

1 The interview took place on February 25, 2012 at the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara.

2 The ‘Stranger King’ theory was developed by Marshall Sahlins in the Pacific region and expanded by David Henley using various regions in Indonesia as his primary case study (see Henley, 2002).

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Jonathan Friedman earned his PhD in anthropology at Columbia University in 1972. He is currently Professor of Anthropology at University of California, San Diego, and Directeur d’ Études at the École Des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France. He also serves as one of the main editors of the journal Anthropological Theory. Friedman has done most of his field research in Hawaii and the Republic of Congo. An early and influential voice in globalization research, he has been arguing for the necessity of a global systemic perspective in understanding the contemporary situation. Among Friedman's many publications are his much cited studies, Cultural identity and global process (1994), and the double volume on The anthropology of global systems, Historical transformations, and Modernities, class, and the contradictions of globalization (with Kajsa Ekholm Friedman, 2008). In his recent work, Friedman analyzes the failures of various globalization frameworks to deal with global crises through the lenses of global anthropology.