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WILLIAM O. BEEMAN
Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
University fo Minnesota

395 HHH Center
301 19^th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Tel: (612) 624-8990, Office: (612) 625-3400, Fax: (401) 633-6398

			Email: William_Beeman@Brown.edu
			Wesleyan University, A.B.; University of Chicago, M.A. and Ph.D. Get a GoStats hit counter
		Past research: Language styles and socio-cultural patterns in Iran: traditional theatre in the Middle East, India and Japan; rural attitudes in Costa Rica. Present and future research: Theory in sociolinguistics and the semantics of interaction; cross-cultural comparison of theatrical and performance genres; opera; paralinguistic and nonlinguistic semiotics; action anthropology. Philosophic anthropology, peasant and nomadic societies: Middle East, particularly Iran and the Persian Gulf region; Japan; Central America; S.W. aboriginal, North American languages, urban U.S. and Europe. Courses: 80, 115, 118, 180, 196, 280, 281, TA128, MU134
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LINGUISTICS
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
CLASSICAL SINGER
	Selected Publications in anthropology, linguistics, performance studies, opera:
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· The “Great Satan” vs. the “Mad Mullahs”: How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood, 2005

· Culture, Performance and Communication in Iran. Tokyo: ICLAA [Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia

and Africa], 1982

· Language, Status, and Power in Iran. Bloomington, IN: IndianaUniversity Press, 1986

· Object, Image and Inquiry: The Art Historian at Work.Getty Press, 1988 [with Elizabeth Bakewell, Marilyn Schmidt and Carolyn McMichael Reese

· Intermedia: A Case Study in Innovation in Higher Education. Providence: IRIS, BrownUniversity, 1988 [with Kenneth T. Anderson, Gail Bader, James Larkin, Anne P. McClard, Patrick McQuillan, Mark Shields]

· The Third Line: The Opera Performer as Interpreter. IndianaUniversity Press, 1993 [with Daniel Helfgot]

· The Study of Culture at a DistanceMargaret Mead, and Rhoda Metraux, eds. [William Beeman, editor] New York: Berghahn Books, 2000

Selected Academic Articles
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· After Ahmadinejad: The Prospects for U.S. Iranian Relations. In Walter Posch, ed., Iranian Challenges. Chaillot Paper No. 89. Paris: Institute for Security Studies, European Union, 2006. Pp. 87-97.

· Losing the Peace in Iraq. Open Spaces Vol. 5 no. 1, 2003

· Fundamentalism and Religious Revival. In J. MacClancy, ed. Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp 129-144.

· Performance Theory in an Anthropology Program. inWimmer, Cynthia, and Nathan Stucky ed. Teaching Performance Studies. Carbondale, IL: University of Southern Illinois Press, 2002

· Iran And The United States—A Case Study In Postmodern Culture Conflict
Paper Prepared For Invited Session:“Opening Pandora's Box: New Directions In Middle Eastern Research” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana November 20-24, 2002

· How to Lose the Peace (Afghanistan). Open Spaces 4:3 [November 2, 2002]. pp. 40-44.

· Performative Symbols and their Relative Non-Arbitrariness: Representing Women in Iranian Traditional Theater in Festschrift for Paul Friedrich, Mary Scoggin, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,2001.

· Situations and Interpretations: Explorations in Interpretive Practice. Anthropological Quarterly 74:4 [November 28, 2001] pp. 159-162.

· Iran in Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds, Countries and Their Cultures. New York: Macmillan. Pp. 1057-1077, 2001.

· Emotion and Sincerity in Persian Discourse. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 148 ( 2001): 31-57.

· The Elusive Butterfly in Iconicity in Language, October 2001

· Introduction: Margaret Mead, Cultural Studies, and International Understanding in The Study of Culture at a Distance. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000

· Humor. In Duranti, Alessandro, ed. Linguistic Lexicon for the 21st Century. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 9:2, 2000.

· The Struggle For Identity in Post-Soviet Tajikistan. MERIA: Middle East Review of International Affairs. 3(4) [Dec.] 1999.

· The Mystery of Singing. Brown University Faculty Bulletin. November, 1999..

· Linguistics and Anthropology. In Blackwell's Dictionary of Anthropology, Thomas Barfield, ed. London: Blackwell's, 1997

· Revitalization Drives American Militias. In James Spradley and David W. McCurdy, edited, Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology, 9th edition. New York: Longman.

· The Anthropology of Theater and Spectacle. Annual Review of Anthropology 22 (1993): 369-393, 1993

· Interculturalism: Cross-Cultural Understanding through the Performing Arts. In Christian Academy, ed., The Encounter between the East and the West and the Creation of a Global Culture. The World Community in Post-Industrial Society, Vol. 4. (Proceedings of the World Academic Conference of the Seoul Olympiad '88). Seoul, Korea: Wooseok Publishing Company. pp. 229-242, 1989

· Hypertext and Pluralism: From Lineal to Non-lineal Thinking. In Proceedings of HyperTEXT '87 Conference. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina. 1987.

· Terrorism: Community Based or State Supported. Arab-American Affairs. 16 29-36, 1986.

· The Use of Music in Popular Film: East and West. Society for Visual Anthropology Newsletter 4(2): 8-12, 1988

· Affectivity in Persian Language Usage. In Good, Byron, Mary Jo Good and Michael M.J. Fischer, eds., Affect and Healing in Middle Eastern Cultures. Special Issue, Culture Medicine and Psychiatry 11 (4) 403-24, 1988. She

· Anthropology and the Myths of Foreign Policy. In Walter Goldschmidt, ed., Anthropology and Public Policy: A Dialogue. American Anthropologist Special Publication No. 21. pp. 45-54. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association, 1986.

· Freedom to Choose: Symbolic Values in American Advertising. In Herve Varenne, ed., The Symbolization of America. Omaha: University of Nebraska Press. Pp. 52-65. Notes, Pp. 253-255

· Toward a Sociolinguistic Model of Dysphoric Affect. In Kleinman, Arthur and Byron Good, eds., Culture and Depression: Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

· A Full Arena: The Development and Meaning of Popular Performance Traditions in Iran. InBonine, Michael and Nikki Keddie, eds. Modern Iran: The Dialectics of Continuity and Change. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981

· Why Do They Laugh? An Interactional Approach to Humor in Traditional Iranian Improvisatory Theatre. Journal of American Folklore 94(374): 506-526. (special issue on folk theater. Thomas A. Green, ed.), 1981

· Cultural Dimensions of Performance Conventions in IranianTa'ziyeh. In Peter J. Chelkowski, ed., Ta'ziyeh: Ritual and Dramain Iran. New York: New York University Press.

· The Hows and Whys of Persian Style: A Pragmatic Approach, in Ralph W. Fasold and Roger W. Shuy, eds., Studies in Language Variation. Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Press. pp. 269-282, 1977.

· Status, Style and Strategy in Iranian Interaction. Anthropological Linguistics 8(7): 305-322, 1976

· You Can Take Music Out of the Country, But...: The Dynamicsof Change in Iranian Musical Tradition. Asian Music 7(2): 6-20, 1976.

Selected short essays and Op-ed articles
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· U.S. Shi’ite Relationship in Iraq—Better than the British? (5/3/04)

· The United States has No Contract with Iraq (4/8/04)

· Not Freedom—A Free-for-all (The Guardian) (4/8/04)