Paul Friedrich

(PhD, Yale 1957) Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and in the Committee on Social Thought, and Associate in Slavics, has done fieldwork in southwestern Mexico, South India, and among Russians. Other research includes the Aphrodite myth in Ancient Greece, and Proto-Indo-European, and American poetry. His current work is divided between anthropology and literary studies (e.g., Homeric Greek, Towstoy, Thoreau) and theoretical problems in ethnography, poetics, semiotics, and politics. (Retired 6/96; still teaching)

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Publications:

1986 The Language Parallax. Linguistics, Relativism and Poetic Creativity. Austin: U of Texas Press.

1997 An avian and aphrodisian reading of the Odyssey. American Anthropologist. 99:2:306-320

1997 Music in Russian Poetry. New York: Peter Lang.

2001 Ironic irony. In J. Fernandez & M. Huber, eds., Ironic Practice. University of Chicago Press.

2002 East European and generic exile. In D. Radulescu, ed., Realms of Exile: Diasporism, Nomadism, and East European Voices. Lexington Books (Forthcoming)

n.d. Tolstoy's Poetics and the Chechens. Book-length manuscript.