James M. Freeman (born 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is an Americananthropologist, and professor emeritus atSan Jose State University.^[1]

Son of philosophy professor Eugene Freeman, James graduated fromNorthwestern University (B.A.), and then fromHarvard University with an MA, and a Ph.D. in Social Relations in 1968. A former Fellow of theCenter for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences atStanford University, Freeman won an American Book Award in 1990 forHearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives. He was co-founder and chair of the Board of Directors of Friends of Hue Foundation from 2000-2006.^[2]

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

• "Rites of Obscenity: Chariot Songs of Eastern India."The Journal of Popular Culture. Vol. 10, issue 4 (Spring, 1977): 882-896.ISSN 0022-3840 <https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1977.1004_882.x>
• James M. Freeman (1979).Untouchable: An Indian Life History. Stanford University Press.ISBN 978-1-3152-0674-5.
• "Caste as pernicious injustice: Berreman's perspective on social inequality."Reviews in Anthropology. Vol. 7, issue 3 (1980): 337-356. <https://doi.org/10.1080/00988157.1980.9977511>
• Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives. Stanford University Press. 1989.ISBN 978-0-8047-1890-5.
• "Work as Mission in an Immigrant Community and Its Homeland."Anthropology of Work Review, vol 22, issue 1 (March, 2001): 13-16. <https://doi.org/10.1525/awr.2001.22.1.13>
• James M. Freeman; Nguyen Dinh Huu (2005).Voices From The Camps: Vietnamese Children Seeking Asylum. University of Washington Press.ISBN 978-0-295-98359-2.
• Charles N. Darrah; James M. Freeman; June Anne English-Lueck (2007).Busier than Ever! Why American Families Can’t Slow Down. Stanford University Press.ISBN 978-0-8047-5492-7.

• Guide to the James Freeman Files. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.

• 1936 births
• 21st-century American anthropologists
• American Indologists
• Vietnamologists
• San Jose State University faculty
• Northwestern University alumni
• Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
• Living people
• American Book Award winners

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