Brian Spooner (University of Pennsylvania)

submitted: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 06:44:39 -0700 (PDT)

Brian Spooner
Professor of Anthropology and 
Museum Curator for Near Eastern Ethnology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6398 USA

phone: 215/898-5207
fax:   215/898-7462
email: spooner@sas.upenn.edu
email: brian@pardis.sas.upenn.edu

Description of Work:

Research:
I have worked in Afghanistan, India, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan, with
special reference to the Baluch, pastoral nomadism, irrigation, the
history of desert areas, ecology and development, and language and
culture.  I have a special interest in Indo-Persian and Urdu, and am
currently engaged in a longterm project on the dynamics of Persian
literacy in the history of South Asia, including (for example) the
organization of information in documents, and the training of munshis.