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Article: Iran and the United States: Postmodern culture conflict in action1
- Article from:
- Anthropological Quarterly
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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CopyrightCopyright Institute for Ethnographic Research Fall 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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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 1968). International conflict was largely left to the purview of political scientists.
After World War II, no one could have predicted that the United States would eventually be involved in conflicts in places as remote from North America as Lebanon, ...