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"Great Satan" vs. the "Mad Mullahs: How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other

Name: "Great Satan" vs. the "Mad Mullahs: How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other
Author: William O. Beeman
ISBN: 9780275982140

by William O. Beeman

Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780275982140

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Synopsis of "Great Satan" vs. the "Mad Mullahs: How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other

Beeman (anthropology and Middle East studies, Brown U.) seeks to understand the cultural underpinnings of the rhetoric between Iran and the US since the 1979 revolution overthrowing the Shah. He identifies the "master myths" of construction for the other for the two countries and then discusses the rhetorical structures that the US and Iran use to construct dialogue with each other. Beeman deals with the dynamics of rhetoric that resulted in constructions of "Mad Mullahs" and the "Great Satan," with wellsprings in the respective cultures of the United States and Iran more than in the realities of historical and political events. He concludes with a strategy for mutual coexistence that breaks down constructions of the other as evil. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

About the Author, William O. Beeman

WILLIAM O. BEEMAN is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Middle East Studies at Brown University. He has lived and conducted research for over 30 years in all areas of the Middle East. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. State Department and the Department of Defense, and has testified before Congress on Middle Eastern affairs. He is the President-Elect of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association (2005-2006) and will serve as President from autumn 2006 until 2008, then as Outgoing President from 2008 to 2009.