RICHARD T. ANTOUN

Email: rantoun@binghamton.edu

Vita

(PhD Harvard University 1963), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, is a sociocultural anthropologist who has conducted research among peasants in Jordan, urbanites in Lebanon, peasant-farmers in Iran, and migrants in Texas and Greece. His scholarly interests center on comparative religion and symbolic systems, the social organization of tradition in Islamic law and ethics, the sociology of dispute with respect to tribal law in the Middle East, local-level politics, and the impact of transnational migration on education, work, and cultural change.

1993 "Themes and Symbols in the Religious Lesson: A Jordanian Case Study", The International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 607-624.

1997 Institutionalized deconfrontation: A case study of conflict resolution among tribal peasants in Jordan. In Conflict Resolution in The Arab World, ed. by P. Salem. American University of Beirut, Beirut.

1999 Jordanian Migrants in Texas and Ohio: The Quest for Education and Work in a Global Society, in Michael Suleiman, editor, Arabs in America: Building a New Future, Temple University Press, Philadelphia.

2000 Civil Society, Tribal Process and Change in Jordan, International Journal of Middle East Studies," Vol. 32, no. 4, November.

2001 Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Muslim and Jewish Movements, Alta Mira Press, New York.

2003 "The Case of the Lost Tooth" in How People Negotiate: Resolving Disputes in Different Cultures, edited by Guy Oliver Faure, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands

2005 Documenting Transnational Migration: Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America, Berghahn Press, New York and London

2006 "Fundamentalism, Bureaucratization, and the State's Co-optation of Religion: A Jordanian Case Study", The International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3, August 2006.

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