`Friedman has produced a book of importance.... It features many tantalizing insights and observations in the author's attempt to comprehend the global constitution of the world and the "positional identities" - not least the identities of social scientists - within the global arena' - Theory, Culture & Society

Towards a Global Anthropology
General Historical and Culturally Specific Properties of Global Systems
Civilizational Cycles and the History of Primitivism
The Emergence of the Culture Concept in Anthropology
Culture, Identity and World Process
Culture Logics of the Global System
Globalization and Localization
History and the Politics of Identity
The Political Economy of Elegance
Narcissim, Roots and Postmodernity
Global System, Globalization and the Parameters of Modernity
Order and Disorder in Global Systems

Jonathan Friedman is Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Lund. He is co-editor (with Scott Lash) of Modernity and Identity (Blackwell, 1990).