 | Literacy in the Persianate World: Writing and the Social Order Subjects: Persian language -- History; Persian language -- Written Persian -- History; Writing -- Iran -- History; Literacy -- Iran -- History; Iran -- Intellectual life; Iran -- Social life and customs; This book offers the first comparative study of the historical role of writing in three languages, including two in non-Roman scripts, over a period of two and a half millennia, which provides an opportunity for reassessment of the work on literacy in English that has accumulated over the past half century. Brian Spooner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. William L. Hanaway is Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. |
