Richard T Antoun
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 77303 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard T Antoun |
| PRENOMES | Richard T |
| SOBRENOME | Antoun |
| ASSINATURA | ANTOUN R T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Binghamton University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 183 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1965 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Documenting Transnational Migration
Most studies on transnational migration either stress assimilation, circulatory migration, or the negative impact of migration. This remarkable study, which covers migrants from one Jordanian village to 17 different countries in Europe, Asia, and North America, emphasizes the resiliency of transnational migrants after long periods of absence, social encapsulation, and stress, and their ability to construct social networks and reinterpret traditio…
From Heroes to Celebrities to Moneyball
Fundamentalism
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Who are the Fundamentalists? The Great Western Transmutation and the Protest Against Modernism The Quest for Purity Scripturalism and Traditioning Selective Modernization and Controlled Acculturation Fundamentalism and Transnational Religion after 9/11 Religion and Violence Bibliography
Fundamentalism, Bureaucratization, and the State's Co-Optation of Religion
In the Middle East over the past half-century, three religious processes have grown together. One, the growth of fundamentalism, has received worldwide attention both by academics and journalists. The others, the bureaucratization of religion and the state co-optation of religion, of equal duration but no less importance, have received much less attention. The bureaucratization of religion focuses on the hierarchicalization of religious specialis…
Documenting Transnational Migration
Most studies on transnational migration either stress assimilation, circulatory migration, or the negative impact of migration. This remarkable study, which covers migrants from one Jordanian village to 17 different countries in Europe, Asia, and North America, emphasizes the resiliency of transnational migrants after long periods of absence, social encapsulation, and stress, and their ability to construct social networks and reinterpret traditio…
Understanding Fundamentalism
Journal Article Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic and Jewish Movements, by Richard T. Antoun. New York: AltaMira, 2001, 181 pp.; $69.00 (Cloth), $19.95 (paper) Get access Sally K. Gallagher Sally K. Gallagher Oregon State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 3, Fall 2003, Pages 411–412, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712493 Published: 01 October 2003
A Reply to Jonathan Benthall
Jonathan Benthall's stimulating comment on my essay on civil society and tribal process in Jordan has five specific criticisms: I pay no attention to gender; I underestimate the importance of mass media; I neglect the fact that Jordan is an aid economy with the implied necessity of finding formal organizations through which to funnel spending; I emphasize the importance of kinship ties, although kinship puts a brake on the country's progress and …
Civil Society, Tribal Process, and Change in Jordan
In the 1990s, the concept of civil society has inspired a variety of publications by Western scholars studying the Middle East and has become the rallying cry for representatives of Western governments interested in promoting democracy in the region. The great majority of such publications and government promotions assume that the Middle East does not have, or has only in very weakly developed forms, the institutions that constitute a civil socie…
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Themes and Symbols in the Religious Lesson
My interest in the religious lesson ( dars ) springs from field research on religious life in a Transjordanian village conducted intermittently over a period of thirty years, beginning in 1959 and culminating in a (1989) book on the Muslim preacher and the Islamic sermon ( khuṭba ). That book did not describe or analyze the dars , but it assumed that its content was distinctive and different from the khuṭba . It expounded practical rather than le…
Muslim Preacher in the Modern World
Muslim Preacher in the Modern World
Richard Antoun documents and exemplifies single most important institution for propagation of Islam, Friday congregational sermon delivered in mosque by Muslim preacher. In his analysis of various sermons collected in a Jordanian village and in Amman, author vividly demonstrates scope of Islamic corpus (beliefs, ritual norms, and ethics), its flexibility with respect to current social issues and specific social structures, and its capacity for in…
Norman N. Lewis, Nomads and Settlers in Syria and Jordan, 1800–1980, Cambridge Middle East Library (Cambridge
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Social/Cultural Anthropology
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Presidential Address—Mesa 1983
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves Shakespeare, Julius Caesar I wish to speak to you tonight about common dilemmas we face as scholars, citizens, and human beings. Each of these rôles involves distinctive obligations and at the same time casts a shadow on the others. Let me begin by discussing a subject that has enthralled or distracted (depending on your point of view) many members of our association over the last few y…
Religion and Politics in the Modern World
The Complexity of the Lower Stratum
The subject of this descriptive essay is social stratification and social control among sharecroppers and wage laborers in Haftabad, a peasant village in northeastern Iran. The aim of the essay is threefold: (1) to describe the complexity of the economic, social, and cultural differences among its residents; (2) to call attention to a critical sociocultural variable hitherto overlooked and/or underplayed in the literature on the rural people of I…
The Islamic Court, the Islamic Judge, and the Accommodation of Traditions
In his collection of essays, Peasant Society and Culture , Robert Redfield stresses that peasants are men of the countryside who are tied to the land and rooted in villages and who, at the same time, must take account of the city - whether that recognition involves its political power, its marketplace, its beliefs, its style of life, or the people it produces. Redfleld calls attention to two aspects of the interaction between town and countryside…
The Gentry of a Traditional Peasant Community Undergoing Rapid Technological Change
The subject of this paper is a patrilineage that lives in two communities six kilometers apart in the north-eastern part of Iran. Traditionally this lineage together with its collateral sections has acted as a gentry for an area composed of eighteen villages. They were and still are (both the lineage and its collateral segments) referred to as the “landlords” (arbāb) of the area although their traditional economic status and political influence h…
Ethnology
Rural Politics and Social Change in the Middle East
News of the Association
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Arab Village
Ethnology
On the Modesty of Women in Arab Muslim Villages
The modesty code constitutes a fundamental pattern in Middle Eastern culture, found at the level of both its great tradition (Islamic law and Quranic ethics) and its little tradition (village custom and belief). The peculiar conditions of peasant life, however, make conformity to the code difficult and require accommodation at the level of both action and thought. It is the accommodation at the two analytically separate levels of thought and acti…
Rural Politics and Social Change in the Middle East
Civil Society, Tribal Process, and Change in Jordan
In the 1990s, the concept of civil society has inspired a variety of publications by Western scholars studying the Middle East and has become the rallying cry for representatives of Western governments interested in promoting democracy in the region. The great majority of such publications and government promotions assume that the Middle East does not have, or has only in very weakly developed forms, the institutions that constitute a civil socie…
Arab Village
Fundamentalism, Bureaucratization, and the State's Co-Optation of Religion
In the Middle East over the past half-century, three religious processes have grown together. One, the growth of fundamentalism, has received worldwide attention both by academics and journalists. The others, the bureaucratization of religion and the state co-optation of religion, of equal duration but no less importance, have received much less attention. The bureaucratization of religion focuses on the hierarchicalization of religious specialis…
The Islamic Court, the Islamic Judge, and the Accommodation of Traditions
In his collection of essays, Peasant Society and Culture , Robert Redfield stresses that peasants are men of the countryside who are tied to the land and rooted in villages and who, at the same time, must take account of the city - whether that recognition involves its political power, its marketplace, its beliefs, its style of life, or the people it produces. Redfleld calls attention to two aspects of the interaction between town and countryside…
On the Significance of Names in an Arab Village
Muslim Preacher in the Modern World
Themes and Symbols in the Religious Lesson
My interest in the religious lesson ( dars ) springs from field research on religious life in a Transjordanian village conducted intermittently over a period of thirty years, beginning in 1959 and culminating in a (1989) book on the Muslim preacher and the Islamic sermon ( khuṭba ). That book did not describe or analyze the dars , but it assumed that its content was distinctive and different from the khuṭba . It expounded practical rather than le…
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Social Organization and the Life Cycle in an Arab Village
More than half a century has passed since Tylor postulated and Malinowski affirmed the essential rationality and independence of primitive man's be? havior. The latter's vivid illustrations counteracted the impression fostered by Durkheim that primitive man, weighted down by a collective conscience, had an extremely limited range of choice. Among contemporary anthropologists, Raymond Firth, one of Malinowski's students, has made the most systemat…
Conservatism and Change in the Village Community
In a changing society it is quite as important, and perhaps more revealing, to ask the question, Why have things remained the same? as it is to pose the more familiar query, Why have things changed? It is the former rather than the latter question that has oriented anthropological investigations of tribal and peasant communities in the recent past. The social anthropologist's predilection for the examination of continuity and integration rather t…
A ntoun's R eply to A bu ‐Z ahra
The Social Significance of Ramadān in an Arab Village
Conservatism and Change in the Village Community
In a changing society it is quite as important, and perhaps more revealing, to ask the question, Why have things remained the same? as it is to pose the more familiar query, Why have things changed? It is the former rather than the latter question that has oriented anthropological investigations of tribal and peasant communities in the recent past. The social anthropologist's predilection for the examination of continuity and integration rather t…
General and Ethnology
Social Organization and the Life Cycle in an Arab Village
More than half a century has passed since Tylor postulated and Malinowski affirmed the essential rationality and independence of primitive man's be? havior. The latter's vivid illustrations counteracted the impression fostered by Durkheim that primitive man, weighted down by a collective conscience, had an extremely limited range of choice. Among contemporary anthropologists, Raymond Firth, one of Malinowski's students, has made the most systemat…
General and Ethnology
The Social Significance of Ramadān in an Arab Village
On the Significance of Names in an Arab Village
On the Modesty of Women in Arab Muslim Villages
The modesty code constitutes a fundamental pattern in Middle Eastern culture, found at the level of both its great tradition (Islamic law and Quranic ethics) and its little tradition (village custom and belief). The peculiar conditions of peasant life, however, make conformity to the code difficult and require accommodation at the level of both action and thought. It is the accommodation at the two analytically separate levels of thought and acti…
A ntoun's R eply to A bu ‐Z ahra
The Society of the Muslim Brothers
Three Approaches to the Cultural Anthropology of the Middle East
Apart from the fact that anthropology has long been considered the bastard of the social sciences and the stepchild of the humanities, it is quite appropriate that a syllabus in Middle Eastern anthropology should follow those on geography, political science, and history. I cannot think of a single cultural anthropologist of my acquaintance dealing with Middle Eastern materials who has not urged, if not insisted, that his students familiarize them…
News of the Members
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Arab Village
News of the Association
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Arab Village
Ethnology
Ethnology
Rural Politics and Social Change in the Middle East
The Gentry of a Traditional Peasant Community Undergoing Rapid Technological Change
The subject of this paper is a patrilineage that lives in two communities six kilometers apart in the north-eastern part of Iran. Traditionally this lineage together with its collateral sections has acted as a gentry for an area composed of eighteen villages. They were and still are (both the lineage and its collateral segments) referred to as the “landlords” (arbāb) of the area although their traditional economic status and political influence h…
The Islamic Court, the Islamic Judge, and the Accommodation of Traditions
In his collection of essays, Peasant Society and Culture , Robert Redfield stresses that peasants are men of the countryside who are tied to the land and rooted in villages and who, at the same time, must take account of the city - whether that recognition involves its political power, its marketplace, its beliefs, its style of life, or the people it produces. Redfleld calls attention to two aspects of the interaction between town and countryside…
The Complexity of the Lower Stratum
The subject of this descriptive essay is social stratification and social control among sharecroppers and wage laborers in Haftabad, a peasant village in northeastern Iran. The aim of the essay is threefold: (1) to describe the complexity of the economic, social, and cultural differences among its residents; (2) to call attention to a critical sociocultural variable hitherto overlooked and/or underplayed in the literature on the rural people of I…
Presidential Address—Mesa 1983
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves Shakespeare, Julius Caesar I wish to speak to you tonight about common dilemmas we face as scholars, citizens, and human beings. Each of these rôles involves distinctive obligations and at the same time casts a shadow on the others. Let me begin by discussing a subject that has enthralled or distracted (depending on your point of view) many members of our association over the last few y…
Religion and Politics in the Modern World
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Muslim Preacher in the Modern World
Richard Antoun documents and exemplifies single most important institution for propagation of Islam, Friday congregational sermon delivered in mosque by Muslim preacher. In his analysis of various sermons collected in a Jordanian village and in Amman, author vividly demonstrates scope of Islamic corpus (beliefs, ritual norms, and ethics), its flexibility with respect to current social issues and specific social structures, and its capacity for in…
Norman N. Lewis, Nomads and Settlers in Syria and Jordan, 1800–1980, Cambridge Middle East Library (Cambridge
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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