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Specialties
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peasant and nomadic societies
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philosophic anthropology
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action anthropology
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paralinguistic and nonlinguistic semiotics
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sociolinguistics and the semantics of interaction
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cross-cultural comparison of theatrical and performance genres
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opera
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Middle East
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Islamic world
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Iran
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South Asia
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Japan
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business anthropology
Educational Background
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Ph.D.: Anthropology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1976.
Publications
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Iranian Performance Traditions. Beeman, William, Mazda Publications, Author, 2011. Link Image
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The “Great Satan“ vs. the “Mad Mullahs“: How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other. Beeman, William, University of Chicago Press, Author, 2008. Link Image
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Language, Status and Power in Iran. Beeman, William, Indiana University Press, Author, 1986. Link Image
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U.S.-Iran Relations: Mutually Assured Estrangement: Beeman, William, Thomas Juneau and Sam Razavi, Routledge, Iran Foreign Policy since 2001: Alone in the World, 196-207, 2013. Link Download
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“The U.S.-Shi’ite Relationship in a New Iraq: Better than the British?“: Beeman, William, Strategic Insights, 3/5 1-8, 2004. Download
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The Performance Hypothesis: Practicing Emotions in Protected Frames.: Beeman, William, Helena Wulff, editor, Berg Publishers, The Emotions, 273-298, 2007. Link Download
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Making Grown Men Weep: Beeman, William, Angela Hobart and Bruce Kapferer, eds., Berghahn Books, Aesthetics in performance : formations of symbolic construction and experience, 23-42, 2005. Link Download
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Silence in Music: Beeman, William, Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb, ed., Berghahn Books, Silence: The Currency of Power, 23-34, 2005. Link Download
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Classical Persian Music, Islam and Ta'ziyeh: Beeman, William, Soussie Restegar and Anna Vanzan, eds., AIEP Editore, Muraqqa'e Sharqi: Studies in Honor of Peter Chelkowski, 43-56, 2007. Link
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“Elections and Governmental Structures in Iran: Reform Lurks under the Flaws.“: Beeman, William, Brown Journal of World Affairs, XI: 1 [Summer/Fall] 55-68. Download
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Los tropos de la musica=The tropes of music: Beeman, William, Revista de antropología social., 15 265-71, 2006. Download
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The Elusive Butterfly : Beeman, William, Iconicity in Language (peer-reviewed online journal), September , 2001. Link Download
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Anthropology and Linguistics: Beeman, William, Ruth Kempson, Tim Fernando and Nicholas Asher (Editors), Elsevier, Philosophy of Linguistics, 531-551, 2012. Download
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War and Peace and Margaret Mead: Anthropology's 20th-Century Contributions to the Reduction of International Violence. William O. Beeman. In Kehoe, Alice B and Paul Doughty, eds., Expanding American Anthropology 1945-1980: A Generation Reflects. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. 2012, pp. 199-204.
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Iran: Beeman, William, Ember, Melvin and Carol R. Ember, eds. , Countries and Their Cultures. New York: Macmillan Reference USA., Countries and their Cultures, 1057-1076, 2001. Link
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U.S.-Iran Relations: Mutually Assured Estrangement. Beeman, William, Thomas Juneau and Sam Razavi, Routledge, Author, 2013. Download
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Negotiating a Passage to the Meal in Four Cultures: Beeman, William, Polly Szatrowski, Editor, John Benjamins, Language and Food , 31-52, 2014. Download
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Emotion and Instantaneous Choice in Interactional Linguistic Pragmatics : Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Beeman, William, Journal of Pragmatics, 69 52-62, 2014. Download
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Dimensions of Dysphoria: The View from Linguistic Anthropology: Beeman, William, Arthur Kleinman and Byron Good, Editors , Berkeley: University of California Press, Culture and Depression: Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder, 216-243, 1985. Download
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The Neurobiology of Opera: Beeman, William, Culture Teatrali (Special Issue—Teatro e Neuroscienze--Theatre and Neuroscience), 16 (Spring) 129-148, 2007. Download
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Iran and Kurdistan: A Studied Ambiguity: Beeman, William, Mohammed M.A. Ahmed; Michael M. Gunter, Mazda Publi9shers, The Evolution of Kurdish Nationalism, 276-286, 2007. Link Download
Research Activities
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Culture and Performance in Central Asia: Field work, 2007 - 2009
Professional Activities
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Chair: Department of Anthropology , January 2007
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President, Middle East Section, American Anthropological Association: 2005 - 2008
Courses Taught
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Biology, Evolution and Cultural Development of Language
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Middle East Anthropology
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Anthropological Linguistics
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Performance Theory
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Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis
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Japanese Culture and Scoety
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Business Anthropology
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