Morton Herbert Fried (March 21, 1923 in Bronx, New York – December 18, 1986 in Leonia, New Jersey),[1] was a distinguished professor of anthropology at Columbia University in New York City from 1950 until his death in 1986. He made considerable contributions to the fields of social and political theory.
Fried attended Townsend Harris High School and then the City College of New York. At City College, he was originally an English major but changed to anthropology. While a student at CCNY, Fried and his friend Richard F. Shepard formed the Mundial Upheaval Society, which later flourished at Columbia University.
Fried served in the U.S. Army during World War II,[2] after one year of graduate work in anthropology at Columbia. In the Army, he was sent to Harvard to learn Chinese and he went on to specialize in the anthropology of China, earning his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1951.[1] He did fieldwork in 1947,'48 in Anhui Province, China, and published his research in The Fabric of Chinese Society (1953).[1]
His mentors were Julian Steward and Karl Wittfogel.
His cohort included Elman Service, Eric Wolf, Sidney Mintz and Stanley Diamond. His first graduate teaching assistant was Marvin Harris and his first graduate student was Marshall Sahlins.
He taught one semester at Yale University during the All Term of 1965. He was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan for one year, 1960-61.
He married Martha Nemes, and the couple had two children, Nancy Fried Foster, an anthropologist and Elman Steven Fried, a writer and filmmaker.[1]
A resident of Leonia, New Jersey, Fried died at his home there on December 18, 1986.[3]
^ abcdMorton Fried page at Minnesota State University's EMuseum Archived 2008-02-24 at the Wayback Machine
^U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
^Staff. "Dr. Morton Fried, 63, Anthropology Teacher", The New York Times, December 20, 1986. Accessed May 16, 2016. "Dr. Morton H. Fried, a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, died of cardiac arrest Thursday night at his home in Leonia, N.J."
Morton Herbert Fried (March 21, 1923 in Bronx, New York – December 18, 1986 in Leonia, New Jersey), was a distinguished professor of anthropology at Columbia...
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University in 1954. There his intellectual influences included Eric Wolf, MortonFried, Sidney Mintz, and the economic historian Karl Polanyi. In 1957, he became...
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exercises its will through the actions of a government or bureaucracy. MortonFried, a conflict theorist and Elman Service, an integration theorist, have...
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Wolf, Eleanor Leacock, Roy Rappaport, Stanley Diamond, Robert Manners, MortonFried, Robert F. Murphy, and influenced other scholars such as Elman Service...
that they had become uninteresting to anthropologists. Anthropologist MortonFried found them completely at home in European culture and its local manifestation...
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His thesis advisors included Conrad M. Arensberg, Richard Bulliet, MortonFried, and Robert F. Murphy. In 1983, after receiving his PhD, he taught briefly...
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agriculturalists resulted in the creation of the state. The anthropologist MortonFried (1923-1986) further developed this approach, positing social stratification...
in which some fall behind as a result of downward social mobility. MortonFried and Elman Service have hypothesised that Ubaid culture saw the rise of...
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in a very different way in the United States. There, authors such as MortonFried, Elman Service, and Eleanor Leacock took a Marxist approach and sought...
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