John Parker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3585829 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Parker |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Parker |
| FIRMA | PARKER J |
| AFILIACIONES | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-0189-2572 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 133 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 250 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 20 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1885 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Scholars of Ghana
Richard Rathbone, Professor Emeritus of African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, died on 11 November 2024 at the age of 81. I first met Richard soon after joining SOAS as an undergraduate in 1988, the occasion being a guest lecture he gave on an
Scientological Fundamentalism? Free Zone Scientology and Religion in Modernity
Mark Rathbun, a high- profile Scientologist, has previously accused the Church of Scientology of being “fundamentalist.” The author explores the idea of a “Scientological fundamentalism,” and how Free Zone Scientology might fit the description. Giving an overview of both the Church of Scientology and the Free Zone, the author argues that many Free Zone Scientologists at least resemble the ways in which other fundamentalists— primarily Christian a…
Speaking with Richard Rathbone
Dr. Richard Rathbone, FRHistS, was a pioneering historian of Africa whose work had a profound impact on many, whether of his own generation or those that have succeeded it, his formal students and many who have learned from him informally. In 2021, three historians of Ghana—Jennifer Hart, Tony Yeboah, and Trevor Getz—conducted an interview with him via Zoom. Richard connected from his home in Wales, to which he had retired. We present the transcr…
Introduction Kings, Kingship and Kingdoms in African History
Great Kingdoms of Africa
A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts. This is the first book for nonspecialists to explore the great precolonial kingdoms of Africa that have been marginalized throughout history. Great Kingdoms of Africa aims to decenter European colonialism and slavery as the major themes of African history and instead explore the kingdoms, dynasties, and city-states th…
Is Injury an Occupational Hazard for Horseracing Staff
Occupational health is a key priority for the horseracing industry, yet little research on occupational injuries exists. This study investigated the prevalence and the effect of injury in British horseracing staff during a 12-month period. An online retrospective survey was answered by 352 participants, identifying self-reported injury prevalence, injury management practices and attitudes towards workplace injury reporting. Chi Squared tests for …
In My Time of Dying
Slaves
This chapter analyzes the entanglement of slavery and death on the Gold Coast. It focuses on the two eighteenth-century texts which reflect on life, death and anticipation of the afterlife in the Ga towns on the eastern reaches of the coast. The Ga (or Accra) had a long and intimate relationship with the Akan peoples to their north and west. The chapter outlines the succession of Akan overlords after the powerful kingdom in the mid-seventeenth ce…
Reordering the Royal Dead
This chapter narrates Agyeman Prempeh's return to Asante in 1924 from exile in the Seychelles. It unfolds how he had changed in the course of his 28 years in detention and repatriated as a private citizen, Mr Edward Prempeh. Two years later, having cemented a reputation among British officials as a progressive figure, he was appointed 'Kumasihene', head of the reconstituted Kumasi division of colonial Ashanti. That said, in his own mind and in th…
Human Sacrifice
This chapter recounts the broader Akan world's or Asante's human sacrifice. It notes that the practice, as established by Law, was widespread in those parts of the West African coastal and forest zones largely untouched by Islam, both in powerful states such Benin, Dahomey and Asante and among non-centralized peoples such as the Igbo in present-day southeastern Nigeria. The chapter presents evidence suggesting that human sacrifice may well have i…
Body, Soul and Person
This chapter examines how the African peoples of the Gold Coast and its hinterland conceived the body, the soul and the person. It investigates what was seen to constitute a human being and what happened to those elements after death. To think historically about death, we need too to think about being alive. Just as the living know that one day their bodily existence will come to an end and they will join the ranks of the dead, so the dead — whet…
Ghosts and Vile Bodies
This chapter looks into the two colonial courts established by the start of 1897 to assist in the governance of Kumasi: one presided over by the British Resident Captain Stewart and the other by Kumasi's cantonment magistrate. It emphasizes the inaugural session of the latter, as the opening case involved the suspected murder of a pregnant woman, named Abena Baidu, and the brutal treatment of her corpse. As the chapter recalls, death during pregn…
Poison
This chapter explores the cultural register of poison and poisoning on the Gold Coast and in its forest hinterland. European apprehension about guileful native poisoners is certainly part of this story, but as the chapter argues, these anxieties, far from simply being febrile orientalist imaginings, were in part derived from African perceptions of the quotidian ubiquity of poison — both medicinal and magical. The chapter investigates its cultural…
Wills and Dying Wishes
This chapter seeks to extend the discussion of writing and reading about death in the Gold Coast's late-nineteenth-century print media. It presents a crucial difference in these two uses of literacy: whereas newspapers were the principal medium of an emergent public sphere, wills — like Christianity — can be seen to represent a shift towards a greater individualization of death, removing matters of inheritance from custom and community to the pri…
Cultural Encounter
This chapter begins to set out the landscape of Willem Bosman's cultural encounter as it unfolded on the Gold Coast from the late fifteenth century. It highlights a set of fundamental metaphysical questions that, in the broadest sense, framed understandings of life and death among the Akan and their neighbours: Where did mankind come from? How did death come into the world? Where do people go when they die? By beginning the story with Bosman, the…
Faces of the Dead
This chapter reviews the most visible material manifestation of funerary culture on the Gold Coast and in its forest hinterland before the twentieth century: commemorative terracotta sculptures of the dead. The chapter notes that the Akan and their neighbours were parsimonious when it came to artistic engagement with the dead. Unlike in many societies, from ancient Egypt to medieval Christian Europe and on to modern Mexico, death in Ghana has not…
The Severed Head
This chapter narrates the accounts of the curation of enemies' skulls on the Gold Coast in the late sixteenth century. It discusses the preservation and aesthetic display of the mortal remains of vanquished foes as mnemonics of military prowess and embodiments of ritual power. Underlying such display was a range of what has been called 'capital visions' — that is, understandings of the severed human head as a metaphor for the sacred, as an encaps…
Making Modern Deathways
This chapter turns to the most emblematic aspect of the African encounter with death: the funeral. It argues that, as historians of death in many cultures have observed, the weight of tradition borne by funeral rites means that they are often stubbornly resistant to innovation. Contemporary sub-Saharan Africa's anthropological research has shown funerary cultures to be undergoing rapid and often dramatic elaboration. In postcolonial Ghana, this t…
Christian Encounters
This chapter discusses how death loomed over the nineteenth-century encounter between Christianity and the peoples of the Gold Coast. It highlights the evangelists who sought to overturn established values and ways of life in order to challenge the very idea of mortality itself: by abandoning idolatry and embracing the salvation offered by Christ. If African religious practice was resolutely this-worldly, aimed at maintaining the beneficence of d…
Conclusion
This chapter concludes by returning to where the book started, to the beginning of time, when Odomankoma fashioned something unspeakable: adee, the 'Thing'. The Thing, as recounted by the ntumpane , was death, and its first victim was Odomankoma himself. The chapter recalls how Odomankoma became the first of countless others to mount the proverbial ladder of death, dead yet somehow not dead, leaving humankind to fend for itself in a threatening a…
How Does Consumer Insight Support The Leap to a Creative Idea
Account planners identify and articulate a key strategic resource, consumer insight, from which creative ideation is said to leap. Insight gives creative staff a license to develop emotional advertising that connects with consumers. Insight works by priming creative staff toward a human truth that holds an inherent tension that an attribute or benefit of the brand can resolve. Some primes are better than others, however. The best ones have strong…
In My Time of Dying
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
Atlantic Islands
Atlantic Islands: Madeira, the Azores, and the Cape Verdes in Seventeenth-Century Commerce and Navigation." History: Reviews of New Books, 1(3), p. 57
The Dynamics of Fieldwork Among the Talensi
This article examines the encounter between the social anthropologist Meyer Fortes and his wife Sonia, on the one hand, and the Talensi people of northern Ghana, on the other, in the years 1934–7. Based in large part on the Forteses’ extensive corpus of recently archived field notes, diaries and other papers, it argues that the quotidian dynamics of that encounter were in many ways quite different from those of Talensi social life as enshrined in…
On being all things to all people
This article examines the challenges and tensions that inhere in university-based boundary organizations. We begin by reconceptualizing the theory of boundary organizations, bringing it into greater alignment with the realities of the current university environment. Using in-depth interviews, documentary analysis and ethnographic field work, this framework is applied to a university-based boundary organization attempting to reconcile the needs of…
Food and Green Space in Cities
This article examines the role played by urban gardens during historical collapses in urban food supply lines and identifies the social processes required to protect two critical elements of urban food production during times of crisis—open green spaces and the collective memory of how to grow food. Advanced communication and transport technologies allow food sequestration from the farthest reaches of the planet, but have markedly increasing urba…
Making the Town. Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra
Making the Town
Witchcraft, Anti-Witchcraft and Trans-Regional Ritual Innovation in Early Colonial Ghana
This article examines the origins and dynamics of Aberewa, an anti-witchcraft movement that rose to prominence in the Akan forest region of Asante and the Gold Coast (Ghana) in 1906-10. It suggests that while the political, social and economic changes of the early colonial period acted as a catalyst for its widespread expansion, Aberewa emerged from an earlier cult called Sakrabundi that was already moving from the savanna into the northern reach…
Northern Gothic
This article examines witchcraft, shape-shifting and other supernatural beliefs among the Talensi and neighbouring Gur-speaking peoples on the frontier of the Northern Territories Protectorate of the Gold Coast (Ghana) in the first half of the twentieth century. Its starting point is the succession of religious movements dedicated to the eradication of witchcraft that swept through the southern forest region of the Gold Coast in the inter-war per…
Go for it!’ Towards a critical realist approach to voluntary risk-taking
This paper examines a type of voluntary risk-taking, orientation to risk and risk rhetoric, which we call ‘go(ing) for it.’ Although occasionally acknowledged in the field of clinical risk management, going for it receives little or no consideration in the existing sociological approaches to risk analysis. We offer a primarily theoretical discussion rather than a formal research report. We illustrate it with empirical examples derived from recent…
Multidimensional Adolescent Self-Concepts
The Self Description Questionnaire II (SDQ II) was administered to 901 students (11 to 18 years old) in grades 7 through 12 who attended one public coeducational high school. Factor analysis clearly identified the 11 SDQ II scales, each scale was reliable (median alpha = .86), and correlations among the factors were small (median r = .17). All of the SDQ II scales were significantly correlated with sex and/or age, though the effects of sex and ag…
The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History
This book critically reflects upon the current state of the field of modern African history. It focuses on the history of the continent in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although also looks back to the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Its aim is to consider the evolution of the field and to set out where, after fifty years of sustained research, it has arrived. To do so, each of its twenty-six chapters explores a particular theme, organi…
Africa's Ogun. Old World and New
African History
African History: A Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented by examining the unity and diversity of African cultures, slavery, religion, colonial conquest, the diaspora, and the importance of history in understanding contemporary Africa. Africa has been known as 'the cradle of mankind', and its recoverable history stretches back to the Pharaohs. But the idea of study of …
In the Wake of Columbus
The Columbus landfall problem / John Parker -- Columbus landed on Caicos / Pieter Verhoog -- Columbus's first landing place / Oliver Dunn -- The Diario Colaon, a legacy of poor transcription, translation, and interpretation / Robert H. Fuson -- In thewake of Columbus on a portolan chart / James E. Kelley, Jr. -- A new approach to the Columbus landfall / Arne B. Molander -- The discovery of Columbus's island passage to Cuba, October 12-27, 1492 / …
In My Time of Dying A History of Death and the Dead in West Africa
An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuriesIn My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in Africa south of the Sahara. Focusing on a region that is now present-day Ghana, John Parker explores mortuary cultures and the relationship between the living and the dead over a four hundred-year period spanning the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Par…
Earth and shadow
Shrines associated with the deity Tongnaab in the Talensi region of northern Ghana formed the centre of a precolonial regional cult that encompassed a variety of peoples in the savannas of the Volta basin. Despite attempts by the British colonial state to destroy the shrines and to suppress ritual activity in the Tong Hills, by the 1920s the cult was spreading beyond its heartland into the Akan forest and the Gold Coast to the south. There it bec…
The Dynamics of Fieldwork Among the Talensi
This article examines the encounter between the social anthropologist Meyer Fortes and his wife Sonia, on the one hand, and the Talensi people of northern Ghana, on the other, in the years 1934–7. Based in large part on the Forteses’ extensive corpus of recently archived field notes, diaries and other papers, it argues that the quotidian dynamics of that encounter were in many ways quite different from those of Talensi social life as enshrined in…
States and Statelessness
This chapter examines the history of state-based and stateless societies in Africa, focusing on how local political and economic processes have mediated broader regional and global processes. It considers the factors which distinguish states from stateless societies, evaluates the shifting historiography, and charts the entangled histories of states and stateless peoples from the early modern era to the nineteenth century and on to the era of col…
Law, Crime, and Punishment in Colonial Africa
Law lay at the heart of the colonial encounter. This chapter examines the ‘deep effects’ that the colonial encounter had on law in Africa and how the very ‘litigiousness’ of Africans reflects both social change and African agency. Colonial officials used law to promote both legibility and stability of African societies. In practice, however, colonial legal systems promoted conflict by imposing rules and expectations that were not widely shared or…
The Dynamics of Fieldwork Among the Talensi
This article examines the encounter between the social anthropologist Meyer Fortes and his wife Sonia, on the one hand, and the Talensi people of northern Ghana, on the other, in the years 1934-7. Based in large part on the Forteses' extensive corpus of recently archived field notes, diaries and other papers, it argues that the quotidian dynamics of that encounter were in many ways quite different from those of Talensi social life as enshrined in…
Structuration's Future? - From ‘All and Every’ to ‘Who Did What, Where, When, How and Why
The Coming Russian Boom
Since the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991, Westerners have been speculating about the future of its vast and long-oppressive economy. Politicians, economists, and businesspeople alike have watched with great interest as the new Russia has scrambled to get on its feet. As support for the communists has waned and waxed, Westerners have worried: Are Russia's troubles merely the growth pains of a rich new market waiting to take off? Or should busin…
A fragment of a fifteenth‐century planisphere in the James Ford Bell collection
(1965). A fragment of a fifteenth‐century planisphere in the James Ford Bell collection. Imago Mundi: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 106-107
Great Kingdoms of Africa
A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts. This is the first book for nonspecialists to explore the great precolonial kingdoms of Africa that have been marginalized throughout history. Great Kingdoms of Africa aims to decenter European colonialism and slavery as the major themes of African history and instead explore the kingdoms, dynasties, and city-states th…
The death of Adumissa
This article examines the history of voluntary death on the Gold Coast in present-day Ghana. Its focus is the suicide of a young woman named Adwoa Amissa (or Adumissa), who took her own life in dramatic fashion in the town of Cape Coast in the early nineteenth century. Adumissa killed herself in response to the earlier suicide of a thwarted suitor, who declared his own self-destruction to be 'on her head', thereby transferring the responsibility …
Contributions of a global network of tree diversity experiments to sustainable forest plantations
The area of forest plantations is increasing worldwide helping to meet timber demand and protect natural forests. However, with global change, monospecific plantations are increasingly vulnerable to abiotic and biotic disturbances. As an adaption measure we need to move to plantations that are more diverse in genotypes, species, and structure, with a design underpinned by science. TreeDivNet, a global network of tree diversity experiments, respon…
Ethnicity and Identity
Historians have been concerned with questions of identity and ethnicity in Africa for some time. This chapter provides a survey of both the history and the historiography of ethnicity. It begins with a discussion of tribe in the colonial era: how ethnicity was fashioned, by whom, and for what purposes; and how the claims of local ethnicities conflicted with the vision of a larger national community. It then surveys and critiques the historiograph…
XIII.—Account of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist, Wycombe
Bishop Tanner informs us that the Hospital of St. John the Baptist at Chepping Wycombe in Buckinghamshire was founded for a master, brethren, and sisters before 20 Hen. III. As the remains of the buildings belonging to it are threatened with demolition in the carrying out of a scheme for erecting a new Grammar School, sanctioned by the Charity Commissioners on the application of the Governors of the Wycombe Grammar School and Almshouse Foundation…
VIII.— The Manor of Aylesbury
The town of Aylesbury is associated with the early history of this country. Green, in his volume on The Malting of England , points to this as one of the four British towns to which a region was subject, that held out against the Saxon invader
Constitutional Background of the Cripps Controversy
Modern Turkey
Turkey's International Relations
Soviet Policy on the Peace Settlement
The Defence of Man
Newfoundland's Political and Constitutional Position
Newfoundland
The attempted Byzantine alliance with the Sicilian Norman kingdom (1166–7)
The endeavours of Manuel I Comnenus (1143–1180) to obtain a papal coronation from Alexander III in the years 1167–1168, and to have himself recognised as Emperor in the West in place of the schismatic and simoniac Frederick Barbarossa, together with his offers in return to subject the Byzantine Church to the authority of the pope, make up one of the most curious episodes in twelfth-century diplomatic history. The story, as told by Cardinal Boso i…
The American Collector
Some Organizational Variables and Their Effect upon Comprehension
Journal Article Some Organizational Variables and Their Effect upon Comprehension Get access John P. Parker John P. Parker 1Dr. Parker is an Associate Professor of English at Montana State College, Bozeman, Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 12, Issue 1, March 1962, Pages 27–32, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1962.tb01519.x Published: 07 February 2006
A fragment of a fifteenth‐century planisphere in the James Ford Bell collection
(1965). A fragment of a fifteenth‐century planisphere in the James Ford Bell collection. Imago Mundi: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 106-107
Chronicle
Merchants and Scholars. Essays in the History of Exploration and Trade Collected in Memory of James Ford Bell
The Battle for the Legitimacy Act 1959
Oxford Politics in the Late Twenties
Comment on ‘Three Models of Scientific Development’ by M. J. Mulkay
Willard Glazier and the Mississippi Headwaters Controversy
Willard Glazier and the Mississippi Headwaters Controversy
Blacks on the box
The American Revolution
Journal Article The American Revolution: A Heritage of Change: The James Ford Bell Library Bicentennial Conference University of Minnesota. Ed. by John Parker and Carol Urness. (Minneapolis: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1975. ix + 173 pp. Notes and references. $10.00.) Get access Paul Goodman Paul Goodman University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…
Rhodesia
The Journals of Jonathan Carver and Related Documents, 1766-1770
Journal Article The Journals of Jonathan Carver and Related Documents, 1766–1770. Ed. by John Parker. (Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Society, 1976. x + 244 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $10.50.) Get access Martin Zanger Martin Zanger University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 197…
The Journals of Jonathan Carver and Related Documents, 1766-1770
Journal Article The Journals of Jonathan Carver and Related Documents, 1766-1770 Get access The Journals of Jonathan Carver and Related Documents, 1766-1770. Edited by Parker John. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1976. x, 244 p. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, appendixes, index. $10.50.) James W. Goodrich James W. Goodrich State Historical Society of Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
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