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Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (born August 26, 1936) is Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government & Asian Studies at Cornell University, and is best known for his book ''Imagined Communities'', first published in 1983. Anderson was born in Kunming, China, to James O'Gorman Anderson and Veronica Beatrice Bigham, and in 1941 the family moved to California.〔Lo, Elaine. ("Benedict Anderson," )〕 In 1957, Anderson received a Bachelor of Arts in Classics from Cambridge University, and he later earned a Ph.D. from Cornell's Department of Government, where he studied modern Indonesia under the guidance of George Kahin. He is the brother of historian Perry Anderson. ==Biography== Anderson was born in 1936 in Kunming, China, to an Anglo-Irish father and English mother. His father, James Carew O'Gorman Anderson, was an official with Chinese Maritime Customs from Waterford in Ireland. The family descended from the Anderson family of Ardbrake, Bothriphnie, Scotland, who settled in Ireland in the early 1700s.〔Perry Anderson's short biography of his father James: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n15/perry-anderson/a-belated-encounter〕〔 Page 7, para. 9〕〔https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalhera00burkuoft#page/8/mode/1up〕 Benedict's grandmother, Lady Frances Anderson, belonged to the Gaelic Mac Gormáin clan of County Clare and was the daughter of the Irish Home Rule MP Major Purcell O'Gorman.〔http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/frost/chap9_macgormans.htm〕〔http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/frost/chap9_ui_bracain.htm〕 Major Purcell O'Gorman was in turn the son of Nicholas Purcell O'Gorman who had been involved with the Republican Society of United Irishmen during the 1798 Rising, later becoming Secretary of the Catholic Association in the 1820s.〔〔https://archive.org/stream/s3unitedirishmen00madduoft#page/270/mode/1up〕〔http://www.irelandmidwest.com/clare/history/historyessays.htm〕 Benedict Anderson takes his middle names from the cousin of Major Purcell O'Gorman, Richard O'Gorman, who was one of the leaders of the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848.〔http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/2231/1/WollmannBenedictAnderson-Wollman-Spencer.pdf page 3〕〔http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/richard%20o'gorman%20in%20limk.pdf〕 Anderson was brought up mainly in California, and after moving to Ireland, studied at Eton College, where he won the illustrious Newcastle Scholarship, and at the University of Cambridge. His graduate work in politics at Cornell resulted in a paper (the "Cornell Paper") detailing the political situation in Indonesia for which he was barred from the country during the Suharto regime. He is known for his book ''Imagined Communities'', in which he describes, using an historical materialist or Marxist approach, the major factors contributing to the emergence of nationalism in the world during the past three centuries. Anderson defined a nation as "an imagined political community (is ) imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign."〔Anderson, Benedict. ''Imagined Communities'', p. 6. ISBN 0-86091-329-5〕 Anderson is currently professor emeritus of International Studies at Cornell University, and head of its Indonesian program. He writes on twentieth-century Indonesian history and politics. He has published on Thailand and the Philippines. As in the case of his work on Indonesia, his work on those countries is grounded in his linguistic ideas. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benedict Anderson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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