Morton Fried

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Morton Herbert Fried (March 21, 1923 - December 17, 1986) , was a distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York City from 1950 until his death in 1986, and a prominent anthropologist of the twentieth century. He made considerable contributions to the fields of social and political theory.

Fried attended Townsend Harris High School and then City College, New York. At City College, he was originally an English major but changed to anthropology. He and his Townsend Harris/CCNY friend Dick Shepard founded the Mundial Upheaval Society while still in college. Fried served in the U.S. Army during World War II, after one year of graduate work in anthropology at Columbia University. In the Army, he was sent to a Chinese language school and he went on to specialize in the anthropology of China, earning his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1950. He did fieldwork in the late 1940s in Anwei Province, China, and wrote a book entitled, The Fabric of Chinese Society.

He was married to Martha Nemes, and had two children, Nancy Eileen and Elman Steven.

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