James M. Freeman

James M. Freeman (born 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American anthropologist, and professor emeritus at San Jose State University.

Life Son of philosophy professor Eugene Freeman, James graduated from Northwestern University (B.A.), and then from Harvard University with an MA, and a Ph.D. in Social Relations in 1968. A former Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, Freeman won an American Book Award in 1990 for Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives. He was co-founder and chair of the Board of Directors of Friends of Hue Foundation from 2000-2006.

Awards 1998-2001 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant 1998-2000 National Science Foundation grant. 1990 American Book Award, for Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives 1983 - 1984 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. 1983 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend.

Selected works "Rites of Obscenity: Chariot Songs of Eastern India." The Journal of Popular Culture. Vol. 10, issue 4 (Spring, 1977): 882-896.

"Caste as pernicious injustice: Berreman's perspective on social inequality." Reviews in Anthropology. Vol. 7, issue 3 (1980): 337-356.

"Work as Mission in an Immigrant Community and Its Homeland." Anthropology of Work Review, vol 22, issue 1 (March, 2001): 13-16.