W O Beeman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2413 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | W O Beeman |
| NOMBRES | W |
| APELLIDO | O Beeman |
| FIRMA | BEEMAN W O |
| AFILIACIONES | John Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6058-0519 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 121 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The pragmatics of communication in traditional ritual performance (Japanese kagura )
Ritual is an intrinsic aspect of human life. Moreover, it is transformational. Ritual performers are engaged in behavior that alters the emotional, mental, and sometimes the physical state of participants in the ritual. In order to create this transformation, ritual performers must have a clear set of pragmatic communication techniques to engage participants and move them through the ritual process. Participants enter a ritual frame, engage in a …
Peter J. Chelkowski (1933–2024)
The Creation of Humor Modality Through Pragmemic Triggers
Humor creation is presented as a modality in human communication involving "double framing", in which a scenario, understanding, or agreed-upon reality is presented and is suddenly revealed to be something else by being recontextualized during the humorous presentation. This analysis utilizes Ba Theory, as articulated in the philosophy of Kitaro Nishida and Shimizu. Ba is a cognitive space for developing relationships, both interpersonal and in r…
Mary Catherine Bateson (1939-2021)
Language, Status, and Power in Iran
By showing the reader the intricacies of face-to-face sociolinguistic interaction, William Beeman provides a key to understanding Iranian social and political life. He recorded and studied mundane conversations; greetings; discussions of crops, marriages, and village happenings; gossip; social talk at weddings, dinners, and religious ceremonies; and talk among people at work. Various patterns of social interaction, such as pronoun usage, signific…
Understanding the Zār
This article explores the structure and meaning of the Zār ceremony as carried out throughout the Persian Gulf. This ceremony is mirrored by similar ones throughout North and East Africa, suggesting that the Zār may have resulted from cultural diffusion along historical trade routes. The Zār practitioners, the bābā and the māmā, must cultivate extensive skills in musical performance, movement and coordination in order to affect a palliative relie…
Doing Good by Doing Well in Business Anthropology
Epic 2016 Conference
Wrapped in the Flag of Israel
Reviewed by: Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizraḥi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture by Smadar Lavie William O. Beeman Smadar Lavie, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizraḥi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014. 216 pp. Why does an oppressed and beleaguered majority population, bureaucratically tortured by the dominant minority authoritarian government in its own nation, still continue staunchly to support …
The Zar in the Persian Gulf
REVIEW - Daughters of Anatolia. Dir. and prod. Halé Sofia Schatz. Ed. Maud Dillingham. 57 mns. Turkish with English subs. 2015
Emotion and instantaneous choice in interactional linguistic pragmatics
How to talk and listen to Iran (Respond to this article at http
In this editorial, the author seeks to understand the cultural dynamics behind Iran's nuclear negotiations
Production, Hearing and Listening
commentary, Music and Sound, Islam, Qur'an, prohibitions against music, religion and cosmology
Performance pragmatics, neuroscience and evolution
This paper addresses the question question: How do individuals affect others cognitively and emotionally through performance? Performance here is broadly defined as purposeful enactment or display behavior carried out in front of an audience . Following Alfred Schütz, Erving Goffman, Deborah Tannen and others, the paper posits that performance works through the creation of behavior that is embedded in cognitive “frames” that determine the symboli…
Gulf Society
One of the longest running toponymic battles in the world revolves around the nomenclature of "The Gulf." I even received an e-mail admonishing me to only use the term "Persian Gulf" when referring to the body of water between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. I explained to the writer that although as a rule I do use "Persian Gulf" in my writing, my purpose in this paper was to call into question the nature of the ethnic identity of the denizens o…
Igapp Prominent at DC Meeting
After 13 Years
Words and Stones
The Great Satan vs. the Mad Mullahs
The United States and Iran have been estranged for 25 years. They have carried out a mutual process of demonization that is unprecedented in modern history, based on cultural hot buttons that have the power to galvanize the populations of both countries. Iranian leaders have characterized the United States as the Great Satan—an evil corruptor that pollutes society and destroys personal morality. American leaders characterize the members of the cu…
Acting Styles and Actor Training in Taziyeh
December 01 2005 Acting Styles and Actor Training in Taziyeh William O. Beeman, William O. Beeman Professor of Anthropology and Theatre, Speech and Dance; and Director of Middle East Studies at Brown University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Mohammad B. Ghaffari Mohammad B. Ghaffari Actor and director, began his career as an actor and in 1971 joined Peter Brook's international research center to perform at the…
The Ta'ziyeh of Hor, and
Ta'ziyeh (which means "mourning" or "consolation") is the only indigenous epic dramatic tradition in the Middle East. It has had a strong influence on Western avant-garde theatre as a result of visits made by Peter Brook, Jerzy Grotowski and Robert Wilson, among others, to the Shiraz Festival of Arts in the mid-1970s, where Ta'ziyeh was first presented to an international audience. Peter Brook in particular was deeply affected by Ta'ziyeh
Performative symbols and their relative non-arbitrariness
Iran and the United States
The Cultural Discourse of Conflict Fifty years ago the study of culture conflict for anthropologists was limited to peoples who lived in close proximity to each other. The most frequent subjects of study were factions of the same society. Even in more recent times, studies of conflict and violence seem restricted to internal divisiveness within nations rather than between nations (cf. Gluckman 1959, Segal and Beals 1960, Levine 1961, Dahrendorf 1…
Emotion and sincerity in Persian discourse
Article Emotion and sincerity in Persian discourse: accomplishing the representation of inner states was published on May 3, 2001 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2001, issue 148)
Situations and Interpretations
Interpretation has long been a central problem for linguistic and cultural analysis. Given that conceptual categories never completely fit the messy situations of everyday life, how do people make sense out of situations in ways that make sense to others? How do they articulate the meanings they derive from the streams of experience around them? Much of the literature that has focused on these issues has emphasized the ways in which interpretatio…
The Anthropology of Theater and Spectacle
In this essay I explore studies of theater and spectacle as distinct cultural institutions. Several kinds of cultural activity closely related to this topic have extensive literatures of their own, but I do not treat them here. These include play and games, sports and contests, verbal art and poetry, and dance and music outside the context of theater and spectacle. The distinction is arbitrary. The boundary between theater and spectacle and many …
Humor
Why Do They Laugh? An Interactional Approach to Humor in Traditional Iranian Improvisatory Theater
William O. Beeman, Why Do They Laugh? An Interactional Approach to Humor in Traditional Iranian Improvisatory Theater: Performance and Its Effects, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 94, No. 374, Folk Drama (Oct. - Dec., 1981), pp. 506-526
The development of directives among Norwegian and Hungarian children
A great deal of interest has developed in the last few years in studying children's linguistic routines in interaction as a means toward understanding child cognitive development (see for example Mitchell-Kernan & Ervin-Tripp 1977). In this study we hope to extend the parameters of this line of research to include cross- cultural investigation. We also hope to shift the focus of investigation away from concentration on children's routinized usage…
Iran and the United States
The Cultural Discourse of Conflict Fifty years ago the study of culture conflict for anthropologists was limited to peoples who lived in close proximity to each other. The most frequent subjects of study were factions of the same society. Even in more recent times, studies of conflict and violence seem restricted to internal divisiveness within nations rather than between nations (cf. Gluckman 1959, Segal and Beals 1960, Levine 1961, Dahrendorf 1…
Anthropology and the Print Media
What is (Iranian) National Character? A Sociolinguistic Approach
It is surprising, somehow, to witness the degree to which the concept of national character doggedly maintains its intuitive appeal in the social sciences. Despite widespread criticism of the use of the concept as the basis for studying human societies, few researchers find themselves able to deny that different societies seem to have a distinctive “feel” to them, and it is a rare field worker indeed who doesn't speak, informally at least, of the…
Situations and Interpretations
Interpretation has long been a central problem for linguistic and cultural analysis. Given that conceptual categories never completely fit the messy situations of everyday life, how do people make sense out of situations in ways that make sense to others? How do they articulate the meanings they derive from the streams of experience around them? Much of the literature that has focused on these issues has emphasized the ways in which interpretatio…
The Semiology of Orientation in Urban Space [and Comments and Reply]
According to the author, a semiology of orientation is not an examination of urbanism aimed at exposing the links between the "structure" ofhe city under discussion and the professional, economic, social, and cultural activities of its population. Nor is it a sociological study of urban space which examines how the city organizes, perceives, imposes, or inhibits its functions and social relations. It is even less a psychological or psychosociolog…
Writing for the crisis
From Grammar to Politics
From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in. Western Samoan Village. Alessandro Duranti. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. 208 pp
Understanding the Zār
This article explores the structure and meaning of the Zār ceremony as carried out throughout the Persian Gulf. This ceremony is mirrored by similar ones throughout North and East Africa, suggesting that the Zār may have resulted from cultural diffusion along historical trade routes. The Zār practitioners, the bābā and the māmā, must cultivate extensive skills in musical performance, movement and coordination in order to affect a palliative relie…
Production, Hearing and Listening
commentary, Music and Sound, Islam, Qur'an, prohibitions against music, religion and cosmology
Emotion and sincerity in Persian discourse
Article Emotion and sincerity in Persian discourse: accomplishing the representation of inner states was published on May 3, 2001 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2001, issue 148)
The Early Days of Sociolinguistics
The Early Days of Sociolinguistics: Memories and Reflections. Christina Bratt Paulston and G. Richard Tucker. eds. Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1997. 362 pp
Iran's Religious Regime
Clerical aspiration for governance in Iran is not a phenomenon that originated with the revolution of 1978-79. It has roots that go back at least three centuries and are well established in Iranian cultural tradition. The current regime is the only fully functioning theocracy in the world at present. It has managed to stabilize its rule and is likely to persist even after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, its current leader. Internal deca…
You Can Take Music out of the Country, but
In order to understand the phenomenon of musical change, it is not enough just to document the nature of the change. One should attempt to understand (1) why certain elements in music are vulnerable to change (2) what symbolic and ideological forces seem to be impinging on musical institutions (composition, training, performance, and consumption) to place pressure on music to change its character in a particular direction (3) what actual institut…
What is (Iranian) National Character? A Sociolinguistic Approach
It is surprising, somehow, to witness the degree to which the concept of national character doggedly maintains its intuitive appeal in the social sciences. Despite widespread criticism of the use of the concept as the basis for studying human societies, few researchers find themselves able to deny that different societies seem to have a distinctive “feel” to them, and it is a rare field worker indeed who doesn't speak, informally at least, of the…
Isma'il 'Ajamī, Shishdāngī (Shiraz
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Toward an Assessment of the Social Role of Rural Midwives and Its Implication for the Family Planning Program
An axiom of family planning programming is the importance of culturally-appropriate communicators and motivators. Traditional midwives seem ideal for this task but few studies have been done to verify this assumption by analyzing the midwife's social role as perceived by the community. 325 married women and 81 unmarried girls from a "model village" near Shiraz were interviewed by female undergraduates. 82.5% of the women are of childbearing age; …
The development of directives among Norwegian and Hungarian children
A great deal of interest has developed in the last few years in studying children's linguistic routines in interaction as a means toward understanding child cognitive development (see for example Mitchell-Kernan & Ervin-Tripp 1977). In this study we hope to extend the parameters of this line of research to include cross- cultural investigation. We also hope to shift the focus of investigation away from concentration on children's routinized usage…
Linguistics
The Semiology of Orientation in Urban Space [and Comments and Reply]
According to the author, a semiology of orientation is not an examination of urbanism aimed at exposing the links between the "structure" ofhe city under discussion and the professional, economic, social, and cultural activities of its population. Nor is it a sociological study of urban space which examines how the city organizes, perceives, imposes, or inhibits its functions and social relations. It is even less a psychological or psychosociolog…
Post-Modernism
Why Do They Laugh? An Interactional Approach to Humor in Traditional Iranian Improvisatory Theater
William O. Beeman, Why Do They Laugh? An Interactional Approach to Humor in Traditional Iranian Improvisatory Theater: Performance and Its Effects, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 94, No. 374, Folk Drama (Oct. - Dec., 1981), pp. 506-526
Tadashi Suzuki's Universal Vision
Interview
The 3 Travels of Aladin with the Magic Lamp
Film Reviews
Brecht's Ashes 2
La Tragedie de Carmen
D'apres Georges Bizet. - Sur un livret de Peter Brook et Jean-Claude Carriere. - Date de composition : 1981. - 1re representation : Paris, Theâtre des Bouffes du Nord, le 5 septembre 1981, Ensemble Ars Nova, sous la direction du compositeur
Alcina
Iran's Religious Regime
Clerical aspiration for governance in Iran is not a phenomenon that originated with the revolution of 1978-79. It has roots that go back at least three centuries and are well established in Iranian cultural tradition. The current regime is the only fully functioning theocracy in the world at present. It has managed to stabilize its rule and is likely to persist even after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, its current leader. Internal deca…
Living with Iran
In the past nine years the Islamic Republic of Iran has posed the most difficult of all foreign policy problems for the United States—a problem usually confronted by marriage counselors rather than diplomats, for Iran is the nation that the United States cannot live with and cannot live without
Japanese Women's Language . Janet S. Shibamoto
Anthropology and the Print Media
The Use of Music in Popular Film
Affectivity in Persian language use
Candidates for Committee on Ethics State B
Language and the Politics of Emotion
Language and the Politics of Emotion. Catherine A. Lutz and Lila Abu‐Lughod. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 217 pp. $44.50 (cloth
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
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