Publications

Publication details [#41998]

Seymour, Michel. 2004. Ancient Mesopotamia and Modern Iraq in the British Press, 1980-2003. Current Anthropology 45 (3) : 351–368.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

allegory | conflict | metaphor | political system | press

Place, Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Journal WWW

www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/journal/index.html

Annotation

This analysis of British newspapers, drawn from 23 years of coverage, between 1980 and 2003, demonstrates and discusses the highly politicized tendency of British newspapers to link Iraq's ancient past to the present through metaphor and allegory.