Magnarella, Paul J. (sd-)

Paul J. Magnarella holds the Ph.D. in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University (1971) and the J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law (1991). He was a Professor of Anthropology and an Affiliate Professor of Law at the University of Florida as well as the founding director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC. Currently, he is an Emeritus Professor at both institutions. The focus of his anthropological research was the socio-economic transformation of rural communities in post-war Turkey, where he first lived as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1963-65. In 1969-1970, he returned to Turkey for doctoral research and conducted an ethnography of a budding small town in western Anatolia. Later, he also worked on a nearby farming community of Georgians, whose residents began emigrating to Europe for work. In addition to his books and journal articles on Turkish society, culture, and politics, Magnarella has been writing extensively about international law, human rights, nuclear disarmament, and U.N. Tribunals in Africa and elsewhere. He also served as legal expert at national and international committees such as the U.N. Tribunal for Yugoslavia.

Keywords: 20^th century | 21^st century | Turkey (Türkiye) | Urban anthropology | Modernity | Islam | Kinship anthropology | Economic anthropology