William O. Beeman

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William O. Beeman

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According to Wikipedia, William Orman Beeman is an American scholar whose specialty is the Middle East. He is Professor Emeritus of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, where he was Chair of the Department of Anthropology for 13 years until his retirement in 2020. He has authored many articles and fourteen books on Iranian politics, theatre, language, and culture.

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William O. Beeman's Published Works

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The Lopsided Ape: Evolution of the Generative Mind (1994) (150)
Language, Status, and Power in Iran (1986) (145)
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THEATER AND SPECTACLE (1993) (125)
Everyday Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia (2007) (115)
From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village. (1996) (99)
Hypertext and pluralism: from lineal to non-lineal thinking (1987) (85)
And Keep Your Powder Dry (2022) (82)
Status, Style and Strategy in Iranian Interaction (1976) (55)
Why Do They Laugh? An Interactional Approach to Humor in Traditional Iranian Improvisatory Theater: Performance and Its Effects (1981) (48)
The "Great Satan" vs. the "Mad Mullahs" : how the United States and Iran demonize each other : with a new preface (2005) (41)
Emotion and sincerity in Persian discourse: Accomplishing the representation of inner states (2001) (38)
Affectivity in Persian language use (1988) (34)
Language and the Politics of Emotion (1991) (33)
The development of directives among Norwegian and Hungarian children: an example of communicative style in culture (1978) (31)
Object, image, inquiry : the art historian at work : report on a collaborative study by the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP) and the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS), Brown University (1988) (27)
What is (Iranian) national character? A sociolinguistic approach (1976) (18)
The U.S.-Shi'ite Relationship in a New Iraq: Better than the British?; Strategic Insights, v. 3, issue 5 (May, 2004) (2004) (16)
Culture, Performance and Communication in Iran (1982) (14)
Iranian Performance Traditions (2011) (13)
The Third Line: The Opera Performer As Interpreter (1993) (13)
The Performance Hypothesis: Practicing Emotions in Protected Frames (2007) (13)
Iran and the United States (2003) (13)
Performance Theory in an Anthropology Program (2002) (12)
Iran and the United States: Postmodern Culture Conflict in Action (2003) (12)
The Use of Music in Popular Film: East and West (1988) (12)
Fighting the Good Fight: Fundamentalism and Religious Revival: Anthropology on the Front Lines (2002) (12)
Intermedia: A Case Study in Innovation in Higher Education (1988) (11)
How to talk and listen to Iran (2014) (10)
Anthropology & mass communication (2003) (10)
The Struggle for Identity in Post-Soviet Tajikistan (1999) (10)
Review of Goody, Esther, ed., Social intelligence and interaction: Expressions and implications of the social bias in human intelligence (1997) (10)
A Full Arena: The Development and Meaning of Popular Performance Traditions in Iran: The Dialectics of Continuity and Change (1981) (10)
Performance Pragmatics, Neuroscience and Evolution (2010) (9)
Iran's Religious Regime: What Makes It Tick? Will It Ever Run Down? (1986) (8)
A Sealed and Secret Kinship (2002) (8)
Toward an assessment of the social role of rural midwives and its implication for the family planning program: an Iranian case study. (1978) (8)
Gulf Society: An Anthropological View of the Khalijis—Their Evolution and Way of Life (2009) (8)
Benedict Anderson’s imagined communities (2018) (8)
Elections and Governmental Structure in Iran: Reform Lurks Under the Flaws (2004) (8)
Studying Contemporary Western Society: Method and Theory (2003) (7)
Anthropology and the Print Media (1987) (7)
Themes in French Culture (1983) (7)
Negotiating a passage to the meal in four cultures (2014) (6)
The Hows and Whys of Persian Style: A Pragmatic Approach (1977) (6)
The Early Days of Sociolinguistics: Memories and Reflections (2000) (6)
The Semiology of Orientation in Urban Space [and Comments and Reply] (1980) (6)
Cultural Dimensions of Performance Conventions in Iranian Ta'ziyeh: Ritual and Drama in Iran (1979) (6)
Silence in Music (2005) (5)
Terrorism: Community Based or State Supported? (1986) (5)
The Use of Music in Popular Film - East vs. West. India (1980) (5)
Homosexuality in the Middle East (2014) (5)
Acting Styles and Actor Training in Taziyeh (2005) (5)
Stalking the Art Historian: The Social Context of Academic Computing (1995) (4)
Production, Hearing and Listening: Intentional Participation in Musical Culture in the Islamic World (2011) (4)
You Can Take Music out of the Country, but...: The Dynamics of Change in Iranian Musical Tradition (1976) (4)
Sociolinguistics in the Iranian world (2009) (4)
Iran’s Islamic Republic (2013) (4)
Persian, Dari and Tajik in Central Asia (2005) (4)
Linguistics and Anthropology (2012) (3)
Sociolect-based community detection (2013) (3)
How Not to Negotiate: Crossed Signals on the Hostages (1981) (3)
From respected scholar to neoconservative ideologue - Don't believe a word Bernard Lewis says about the Middle East. Review of The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, by Bernard Lewis (2003) (3)
Emotion and instantaneous choice in interactional linguistic pragmatics: Cross-cultural perspectives (2014) (3)
The Cultural Role of the Media in Iran: The Revolution of 1978-1979 and After (1984) (3)
War on the Homefront: An Examination of Wife Abuse (2000) (3)
Object, Image and Inquiry: The Art Historian at Work (1991) (3)
Review of Haeri, Shahla, Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi'a Islam (1992) (2)
Making Grown Men Weep: The Art of Rite (2005) (2)
Tadashi Suzuki’s Universal Vision (2018) (2)
Stricter Penalties Will Not Eliminate Terrorism: Opposing Viewpoints (1986) (2)
Writing for the crisis (2001) (2)
Living with Iran (1987) (2)
Review of Ingvild Flaskerud, Visualizing Belief and Piety in Iranian Shiism (2012) (2)
Iranian Performance Traditions: Keys to Iranian Culture (2011) (2)
Review of Chehabi, H.E., Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (1992) (2)
Anthropology and the Myths of Foreign Policy (1986) (2)
Performative symbols and their relative non-arbitrariness: Representing women in Iranian traditional theater (2003) (2)
Theatre in the Middle East (1988) (2)
Nikki R.Keddie:Roots of Revolution--an Interpretative History of Modern Iran,1982 (1982) (2)
Patterns of Religion and Economic Development in Iran from the Qajar Era to the Islamic Revolution of 1978-9 (1983) (2)
Review of Rubin, Barry, Paved with Good Intentions: The American Experience and Iran (1982) (2)
Iran's regional and strategic interests (2006) (2)
Anthropology and the Myths of American Foreign Policy: Perspectives on the Nuclear Age (1989) (2)
Aging in Today’s World (2003) (2)
Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran by Shahram Khosravi (review) (2017) (1)
International Society for Iranian Studies (2014) (1)
Understanding the Zār (2018) (1)
Japan in the Middle East (1982) (1)
After 13 Years: Back in Iran by Abbas Yousefpour (2008) (1)
Torture, Television, and Iranian Culture (1996) (1)
Music and ideology: Music at the margins: Performance and ideology in the persianate world (2010) (1)
Margaret Mead: The Study of Contemporary Western Cultures (2000) (1)
Follow the Oil Trail—Mess in Afghanistan Partly Our Government's Fault: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power (2004) (1)
Religion and Ritual Performance (2015) (1)
Martyrdom, Shi’a Islam, Ta’ziyeh: Political Symbolism in Shi’a Islam (2017) (1)
Classical Persian Music, Islam and Ta’ziyeh: Studies in Honor of Peter Chelkowski (2007) (1)
Images of the Great Satan; Symbolic conceptions of the United States in the Iranian Revolution (1983) (1)
Japanese Women's Language. Janet S. Shibamoto (1987) (1)
Double Demons: Cultural Impedance in U.S.-Iranian Understanding (2019) (1)
Ta’ārof – the key to Iranian social behavior (2020) (1)
Eligible for Regime Change? The Flimsy US Case against Iran (2006) (1)
The Ta'ziyeh of Hor, and: The Ta'ziyeh of the Children of Moslem, and: The Ta'ziyeh of Imam Hussein (review) (2003) (1)
Losing the Peace in Iraq (2003) (1)
The Performance Hypothesis (2006) (1)
Proprietary Research and Anthropological Ethics (1992) (1)
Iran’s Ethnic Minorities: Turmoil on the Borders (2018) (0)
Linguistics: Cultural Expression in Arab Society Today. Jacques Berque. (1979) (0)
In Tehran with Sean Penn (2018) (0)
Media, Culture and Society in Iran: Living with Globalization and the Islamic State (2010) (0)
The Eternal Romantic (2000) (0)
Freedom to Choose: Symbolic Values in American Advertising (1986) (0)
The third line : the singer as Interpreter (2002) (0)
Post-Revolutionary Iran: Democracy or Theocracy (2016) (0)
Los tropos de la musica=The tropes of music (2006) (0)
Call in the Sex Inspectors! Ambiguity vs. “Marriage Laws.” (2004) (0)
CA* Comment on Georges Mounin-The Semiology of Orientation (1980) (0)
Iran and Kurdistan: A Studied Ambiguity (2017) (0)
Review of Caught in Play by Peter Stromberg (2011) (0)
Lybia Tries Show of Strength to Impress Moscow (1981) (0)
Food and Drink in Contemporary Iran (1982) (0)
Anticipating the Future: Collected papers by Margaret Mead (2004) (0)
A War Our Great-GrandchildrenWill Be Fighting: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power (2004) (0)
Reflections on the Hmong in Providence (1982) (0)
Intermediate Persian, Volume I, II (1979) (0)
Language and emotion (2019) (0)
Tradition Iranian Improvisatory Theatre (1977) (0)
Computers and Human Consciousness (1987) (0)
Media Anthropology: Informing Global Citizens. Susan Allen, ed (1995) (0)
Tajikistan: National Symbolism and Revolutionary Politics (2000) (0)
Review of Choreophobia:Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World. by Anthony Shay (2000) (0)
Ferdowsi and Tajik National Identity (2005) (0)
Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World, Anthony Shay, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999, Bibliotheca Iranica Performing Arts Series No. 5, ISBN: 1–56859–083–0, 245 pp., 16 figures, bibliography, index. (2000) (0)
Iranian Nationality and the Persian Language, Shahrokh Meskoob, trans. Michael J. Hillmann, ed. John Perry, foreword and interview with the author by Ali Banuazizi, Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers, 1993, 191 pp. (1995) (0)
Mimesis and Travesty in Middle Eastern Theater: The Presentation of Difference in the Performing A (1992) (0)
Ph.D. Dissertations (1973) (0)
Review of Meskoob,Shahrokh, Iranian Nationality and the Persian Language (1995) (0)
IGAPP Prominent at DC Meeting (2008) (0)
Air Route Battle Mirrors Trade Dilemmas (1982) (0)
Review of Keddie, Nikki R. Roots of Revolution: an Interpretive History of Modern Iran (1982) (0)
A JOINT SESSION: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CANNABIS POLICY (2015) (0)
Anthropology and Performance Studies: Performance Studies in America (1982) (0)
EPIC 2016 Conference (2016) (0)
The Mystery of Singing (1999) (0)
Language and Identity Politics (2022) (0)
Brecht’s Ashes 2 by Eugenio Barba; and The Million by Eugenio Barba (review) (2018) (0)
Nonconservative guru sets sights on Iran (2003) (0)
Alcina by Handel (review) (2018) (0)
The Zar in the Persian Gulf (2018) (0)
The Future Campus Computerization (1986) (0)
The Zar in the Persian Gulf: Performative dimensions (2015) (0)
Marianna Torgovnick. Primitive Passions: Men, Women and the Quest for Ecstacy. by Marianna Torgovnick (2000) (0)
Iran’s Protest Movements—Part II (2018) (0)
Letter from William Beeman to Joshua Lederberg (1960) (0)
Iran, Hizbollah, and Israel: The Real Story (2018) (0)
Conflict and Belief in American Foreign Policy: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1986) (0)
Nemad-ha-ye Melli-gera'i dar Iran (1992) (0)
The Concept: Risk—East and West (2004) (0)
The Shah, Monarchists, and TV Pretenders (2018) (0)
Reviews (2000) (0)
Review of James Bill, The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American Iranian Relations (1988) (0)
Ta’ārof (2020) (0)
U.S. may be laying the groundwork to attack Iran (2005) (0)
Review of Kazemi, Farhad Poverty and Revolution in Iran: The Migrant Poor, Urban Marginality and Politics (1982) (0)
Bacchus Reborn in the Middle of Asia (1981) (0)
Review of Ruhollah Ramazani, Revolutionary Iran (1987) (0)
The Perpetual Crisis in the Middle East: Selected Op-Ed Essays. 1980-2001 (2001) (0)
Assesment and Intensive Computing on the College Campus: A Research Summary (1989) (0)
War and peace and margaret mead: In search of a role for anthropology in the reduction of international violence (2012) (0)
Zaban, Hovviat va Ghodrat dar Iran (2004) (0)
The Elusive Butterfly (2001) (0)
Why Middle Eastern Terrorists Hate the United States (2001) (0)
FILM REVIEWS:A Zoroastrian Ritual: The Yasna. 1983. Produced and directed by James W. Boyd and William R. Darrow (1983) (0)
Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizraḥi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture by Smadar Lavie (review) (2016) (0)
Jensiyat va Hoveyat dar Iran (1993) (0)
Review of Allen, Susan, ed., Media Anthropology: Informing Global Citizens (1995) (0)
Traditional Improvisatory Theatre in Asia: An Introductory Note (1977) (0)
Iran's Religious Regime (1982) (0)
Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel and A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East (2006) (0)
Review of Berque, Jacques, Cultural Expression in Arab Society Today (1979) (0)
Handshake of Hope, Handshake of Despair (1993) (0)
Anticipating the Future (2019) (0)
Review of Ingvild Flaskerud, Visualizing Belief and Piety in Iranian Shiism (2012) (0)
La Tragédie De Carmen by Marius Constant, Jean-Claude Carriére, Peter Brook (review) (2018) (0)
Tadashi Suzuki: “The Word is an Act of the Body” (2018) (0)
The Tropes of Music (2006) (0)
Providence: City of Enormous Charm and Excitement (1996) (0)
United States Tells Iran: Become a Nuclear Power (2018) (0)
Mary Catherine Bateson (1939–2021) (2023) (0)
What the U.S. Media Didn’t Tell You (2018) (0)
Lois Beck (text)/ Nikki Keddie (photos)/ Brad Hanson (assistant). The Qashqa’i People of Southern Iran. Los Angeles: UCLA Museum of Cultural History, Pamphlet Series 14, 1981. 32 pp. Illus. $4.00 (1981) (0)
Vlado Kotnik Opera and the Anthropologist : An Odd Couple ? (2008) (0)
Review of Lefkowitz: Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel by Daniel Lefkowitz and A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East by Yasir Suleiman (2006) (0)
The Word is an Act of the Body. Interview with Tadashi Suzuki (1982) (0)
The 3 Travels of Aladin With The Magic Lamp by Francoise Grund (review) (2018) (0)
U.S. Anti-Terrorist Message Won't Fly in the Islamic World: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power (2004) (0)
Doing Good by Doing Well in Business Anthropology (2017) (0)
Emotion and sincerity in Persian discourse (2001) (0)
How to Lose the Peace (2002) (0)
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1992) (0)
Paying the Price of Empire (1979) (0)
Candidates for Committee on Ethics State B (1989) (0)
Boloukbashi, Ali and William Beeman, And A Time for Pleasure: Elements of Destiny (1978) (0)
The World as Seen through an Old Woman's Eyes (1981) (0)
Martyrdom vs. Intervention: The Cultural Logic Behind Iranian Resistance to American Military Intervention (1980) (0)
Social Change in Post-Khomeini Iran Summary Report (2013) (0)
Traditional Indian Theater Modernized in Japan (1982) (0)
Who Rules Iran (2018) (0)
Music and Marginality Ethnicity and Status in the Persianate World (2010) (0)
Farhad Kazemi. Poverty and Revolution in Iran: The Migrant Poor, Urban Marginality and Politics. New York: New York University Press, 1980. Bibliography, index. 180 pp. $19.50 (1982) (0)
Conflict and Belief in American Foreign Policy (2020) (0)
Review of Catherine Lutz and Leila Abu-Lughod, eds. Language and the Poetics of Emotion (1991) (0)
Japan on Way to Becoming Major Military Power (1982) (0)
Revitalization Drives American Militias: Readings in Cultural Anthropology (1997) (0)
Learning the Lessons of Iraq (2018) (0)
War and Peace and Margaret Mead: Anthropology's 20th-Century Contributions to the Reduction of International Violence (2011) (0)
A Brief History of U.S.–Iranian Relations (2018) (0)
Grass: Untold Stories (review) (2011) (0)
Understanding The Behavior Of Shi’a And Sunni Muslims In Iraq Is Complicated (2014) (0)
Social Change in Post-Khomeini Iran (2013) (0)
Iran and Central Asia (2017) (0)
Social Change in Post-Khomeini Iran Arabic Summary Report (2015) (0)
Caught in Play: How Entertainment Works on You. Peter G. Stromberg. Palo-Alto: Stanford University Press. 2009. vii+232 pp. (2011) (0)
Review of MEDIA, Culture & Society in Iran: Living With Globalization & the Islamic State by Mehdi Samati, ed (2010) (0)
Isma'il 'Ajamī, Shishdāngī (Shiraz: Pahlavi University Press, 1348/1969). (1977) (0)
Problems of Children and Youth in the Iranian Family: A Pilot Study in the Villages of the Kashan Desert Region (1971) (0)
Iran and the United States: An Insider’s View on the Failed Past and the Road to Peace by Seyed Hossein Mousavian with Shahir Shahidsaless (review) (2015) (0)
Gulf Oilspill: Desperate Dilemma in the Persian Gulf (1983) (0)
US-Iran relations: Mutually assured estrangement (2013) (0)
Studying Contemporary Western Society (2004) (0)
The Neurobiology of Opera (2007) (0)
Performance in discourse and in film (1993) (0)
War and Peace and Margaret Mead: Anthropology's 20th-Century Contributions to the Reduction of International Violence: A Generation Reflects (2011) (0)
Review of The United States and Iran: The Patterns of Influence. by R.K. Ramazani (1983) (0)
Five American Singers in Chemnitz (1997) (0)
George Gershwin's Continuing Influence -- Dialogue with Masao Yamaguchi (1981) (0)
Annual Meeting: Minneapolis is Awesome (2016) (0)
Bhavai-Traditional Improvisatory Theatre (India) (1977) (0)
George Gershwin and the Semiotics of American Music (1981) (0)
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1992) (0)

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