Brian Spooner
- BAŠĀKERD
BAŠĀKERD (also Bašāgerd), a roughly rectangular mountainous district (dehestān) east of Mīnāb and north of Jāsk. Bašākerd proper is bounded…
- ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTHROPOLOGY (New Persian mardomšenāsī), social and cultural, in Iran and Afghanistan (see also Afghanistan iv). Anthropology as an Iranological discipline…
- ĀBYĀRĪ
ĀBYĀRĪ, “irrigation” in Iran. Introduction. Although dry farming is important in Azarbaijan, Kurdistan, and Khorasan, as well as some other…
- SIĀQ
SIĀQ is a system of numerical notation, one of several different historical systems of Persianate numeracy. It has also been…
- ETHNOGRAPHY (Bibliography)
ETHNOGRAPHY (Bibliography) For cited works not given in detail, see “Short References”; see also the bibliography in ANTHROPOLOGY, where a…
- BALUCHISTAN i. Geography, History and Ethnography
BALUCHISTAN i. Geography, History, and Ethnography This article is divided into the following sections: 1. introductory review of problems in…
- ETHNOGRAPHY (Text)
ETHNOGRAPHY, the basic field research method in anthropology. This article, which treats the corpus of ethnographic data, complements the article…
- DESERT
DESERT (Pers. bīābān; kavīr; lūt; see below), area of low precipitation that supports little vegetation and lacks surface water. Secondary…
- BĪĀBĀN
BĪĀBĀN, name of the coastal plain that extends south from the mouth of the Mīnāb river for 88 miles to…