Description: A leading anthropologist examines Iranian media in its cultural and historical contexts, situating it between older oral narratives and currently proliferating postmodern forms.
Review Quotes: "No one reading this book can doubt that when one is face-to-face with Iran, one is face-to-face with one of the great world civilizations of all human history."--William O. Beeman, author of Double Demons: Cultural Impediments to U.S.-Iranian Understanding