Peter Parkes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Parkes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Parkes |
| SIGNATURE | PARKES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Unwrapping rudeness: Inverted etiquette in an egalitarian enclave
Milk kinship in Southeast Europe. Alternative social structures and foster relations in the Caucasus and the Balkans
Developing an earlier analysis of milk kinship allegiance in the Hindu Kush mountains of northern Pakistan – elaborated along the lines of Eugene Hammel's pioneering analysis of Serbian spiritual kinship – this essay appropriately returns to other ethnographies of adoptive kinship in Southeast Europe. I examine a hitherto neglected account of milk kinship and child fosterage in the Caucasian statelet of Abkhazia, comparing its tributary formation…
Celtic Fosterage: Adoptive Kinship and Clientage in Northwest Europe
Historians of Europe may be generally aware of the former significance of Celtic child-fostering, so prominently documented in the law books and legends of medieval Ireland. Yet there is no comprehensive survey of such fosterage from a comparative historical perspective, nor has its archival documentation been collated for analysis. The present essay aims to redress this neglect: it reviews extant evidence of Celtic fosterage in the British Isles…
A Pasture in Common: A Twentieth-Century Environmental History of Ewyas Harold Common (Herefordshire)
This paper examines the decline in the use of one Herefordshire common and how this is reflected in changes in the common's ecology. Direct field observation and biological evidence have been combined with oral histories and documentary sources, particularly the records of the Commoners Association and the National Farmers Union Branch Records, photographs, and maps in reconstructing these changes. The paper explores how the common has been recur…
Milk kinship in Islam. Substance, structure, history
The article critically interrogates an influential theory of Françoise Héritier and her associates that purports to explain Islamic milk kinship as the symbolic product of a peculiar Arab folk-physiology of lactation whereby breastmilk is supposed to be transformed male semen. In Part One, this somatic conjecture is shown to be unsubstantiated by extant ethnographies of milk kinship in the Middle East and North Africa. Reviewing its legal and soc…
Fosterage, Kinship, and Legend: When Milk Was Thicker than Blood
When social ties are put to the test, proverbs affirm, those of consanguinity usually prevail: 'Blood is thicker than water'; or as Arabs put it, 'Blood is thicker than milk' (Lane 1893:1097). These enigmatic adages refer to former institutions ofadoptive kinshipin western Eurasia, contrasting the blood of natal kinship with the water of baptism or 'spiritual kinship' in Christendom, and with infant fosterage or 'milk kinship' in Islam. Other say…
Fostering Fealty: A Comparative Analysis of Tributary Allegiances of Adoptive Kinship
This article pursues conjectures raised in the conclusions of an earlier essay (Parkes 2001), where I suggested that Eugene Hammel's (1968) classic analysis of Serbian godparenthood might be extended to other kinds of constructed kinship attested in the historical ethnography of Europe and Asia. Hammel's notion of alternative social structures-configurations of mutually exclusive ties of patrilineal descent, affinal alliance, and godparenthood-wa…
Alternative Social Structures and Foster Relations in the Hindu Kush: Milk Kinship Allegiance in Former Mountain Kingdoms of Northern Pakistan
This article is a comparative elaboration of Eugene Hammel's pioneering analysis of “fictive kinship,” Alternative Social Structures and Ritual Relations in the Balkans (1968). In place of godparenthood, I examine the structurally similar institution of fosterage or “milk kinship” as documented in former mountain kingdoms of the Hindu Kush in northern Pakistan. Comparable structures of interdomestic allegiance and tributary patronage organized th…
Arbeit und Ernahrung in Yasin: Aspekte des Productions-Reproductions-Zusammenhangs in Einem Hochgebirgstal Nordpakistans
The Hazaras of Afghanistan: An Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Study
Ethnizitat Im Engwicklungsprozess: Die Wakhi In Hochasien
The Arts and Crafts of the Swat Valley: Living Traditions in the Hindu Kush
The upper Swat valley in the mountain region of north Pakistan, not well known even to those with a special interest in the Orient, has one of the most remarkable cultures in the Islamic world, influenced by the cultures of central Asia, China and India. The harvests from the valley's fertile soil have made possible the development of various castes practising a variety of crafts, and the mountains have long provided the raw material most importa…
Temple of Imra, Temple of Mahandeu: A Kafir sanctuary in Kalasha cosmology
This article examines the mythical significance of the famous Afghan Kafir 'Temple of Imra' described in Robertson'sKáfirs of the Hindu-Kush(1896: 389-92) within the cosmology of the Kalasha ('Kalash Kafirs') of Chitral in northern Pakistan. It is known as the 'Temple of Mahandeu' in Kalasha tradition, and stories about this sanctuary play an important role in the exegesis of all Kalasha rites. It is, indeed, a focal symbol of Kalasha cosmology: …
Kalasha Rites of Spring: Backstage of a `Disappearing World' Film
The Religions of the Hindu Kush, Vol. 1, The Religion of the Kafirs: The Pre-Islamic Heritage of Afghan Nuristan
Livestock Symbolism and Pastoral Ideology Among the Kafirs of the Hindu Kush
Milk kinship in Islam. Substance, structure, history
The article critically interrogates an influential theory of Françoise Héritier and her associates that purports to explain Islamic milk kinship as the symbolic product of a peculiar Arab folk-physiology of lactation whereby breastmilk is supposed to be transformed male semen. In Part One, this somatic conjecture is shown to be unsubstantiated by extant ethnographies of milk kinship in the Middle East and North Africa. Reviewing its legal and soc…
Fosterage, Kinship, and Legend: When Milk Was Thicker than Blood
When social ties are put to the test, proverbs affirm, those of consanguinity usually prevail: 'Blood is thicker than water'; or as Arabs put it, 'Blood is thicker than milk' (Lane 1893:1097). These enigmatic adages refer to former institutions ofadoptive kinshipin western Eurasia, contrasting the blood of natal kinship with the water of baptism or 'spiritual kinship' in Christendom, and with infant fosterage or 'milk kinship' in Islam. Other say…
Milk kinship in Southeast Europe. Alternative social structures and foster relations in the Caucasus and the Balkans
Developing an earlier analysis of milk kinship allegiance in the Hindu Kush mountains of northern Pakistan – elaborated along the lines of Eugene Hammel's pioneering analysis of Serbian spiritual kinship – this essay appropriately returns to other ethnographies of adoptive kinship in Southeast Europe. I examine a hitherto neglected account of milk kinship and child fosterage in the Caucasian statelet of Abkhazia, comparing its tributary formation…
Livestock Symbolism and Pastoral Ideology Among the Kafirs of the Hindu Kush
Alternative Social Structures and Foster Relations in the Hindu Kush: Milk Kinship Allegiance in Former Mountain Kingdoms of Northern Pakistan
This article is a comparative elaboration of Eugene Hammel's pioneering analysis of “fictive kinship,” Alternative Social Structures and Ritual Relations in the Balkans (1968). In place of godparenthood, I examine the structurally similar institution of fosterage or “milk kinship” as documented in former mountain kingdoms of the Hindu Kush in northern Pakistan. Comparable structures of interdomestic allegiance and tributary patronage organized th…
Celtic Fosterage: Adoptive Kinship and Clientage in Northwest Europe
Historians of Europe may be generally aware of the former significance of Celtic child-fostering, so prominently documented in the law books and legends of medieval Ireland. Yet there is no comprehensive survey of such fosterage from a comparative historical perspective, nor has its archival documentation been collated for analysis. The present essay aims to redress this neglect: it reviews extant evidence of Celtic fosterage in the British Isles…
Fostering Fealty: A Comparative Analysis of Tributary Allegiances of Adoptive Kinship
This article pursues conjectures raised in the conclusions of an earlier essay (Parkes 2001), where I suggested that Eugene Hammel's (1968) classic analysis of Serbian godparenthood might be extended to other kinds of constructed kinship attested in the historical ethnography of Europe and Asia. Hammel's notion of alternative social structures-configurations of mutually exclusive ties of patrilineal descent, affinal alliance, and godparenthood-wa…
The Hazaras of Afghanistan: An Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Study
Temple of Imra, Temple of Mahandeu: A Kafir sanctuary in Kalasha cosmology
This article examines the mythical significance of the famous Afghan Kafir 'Temple of Imra' described in Robertson'sKáfirs of the Hindu-Kush(1896: 389-92) within the cosmology of the Kalasha ('Kalash Kafirs') of Chitral in northern Pakistan. It is known as the 'Temple of Mahandeu' in Kalasha tradition, and stories about this sanctuary play an important role in the exegesis of all Kalasha rites. It is, indeed, a focal symbol of Kalasha cosmology: …
The Arts and Crafts of the Swat Valley: Living Traditions in the Hindu Kush
The upper Swat valley in the mountain region of north Pakistan, not well known even to those with a special interest in the Orient, has one of the most remarkable cultures in the Islamic world, influenced by the cultures of central Asia, China and India. The harvests from the valley's fertile soil have made possible the development of various castes practising a variety of crafts, and the mountains have long provided the raw material most importa…
The Religions of the Hindu Kush, Vol. 1, The Religion of the Kafirs: The Pre-Islamic Heritage of Afghan Nuristan
Livestock Symbolism and Pastoral Ideology Among the Kafirs of the Hindu Kush
Kalasha Rites of Spring: Backstage of a `Disappearing World' Film
Temple of Imra, Temple of Mahandeu: A Kafir sanctuary in Kalasha cosmology
This article examines the mythical significance of the famous Afghan Kafir 'Temple of Imra' described in Robertson'sKáfirs of the Hindu-Kush(1896: 389-92) within the cosmology of the Kalasha ('Kalash Kafirs') of Chitral in northern Pakistan. It is known as the 'Temple of Mahandeu' in Kalasha tradition, and stories about this sanctuary play an important role in the exegesis of all Kalasha rites. It is, indeed, a focal symbol of Kalasha cosmology: …
The Arts and Crafts of the Swat Valley: Living Traditions in the Hindu Kush
The upper Swat valley in the mountain region of north Pakistan, not well known even to those with a special interest in the Orient, has one of the most remarkable cultures in the Islamic world, influenced by the cultures of central Asia, China and India. The harvests from the valley's fertile soil have made possible the development of various castes practising a variety of crafts, and the mountains have long provided the raw material most importa…
Ethnizitat Im Engwicklungsprozess: Die Wakhi In Hochasien
Arbeit und Ernahrung in Yasin: Aspekte des Productions-Reproductions-Zusammenhangs in Einem Hochgebirgstal Nordpakistans
The Hazaras of Afghanistan: An Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Study
Alternative Social Structures and Foster Relations in the Hindu Kush: Milk Kinship Allegiance in Former Mountain Kingdoms of Northern Pakistan
This article is a comparative elaboration of Eugene Hammel's pioneering analysis of “fictive kinship,” Alternative Social Structures and Ritual Relations in the Balkans (1968). In place of godparenthood, I examine the structurally similar institution of fosterage or “milk kinship” as documented in former mountain kingdoms of the Hindu Kush in northern Pakistan. Comparable structures of interdomestic allegiance and tributary patronage organized th…
Fostering Fealty: A Comparative Analysis of Tributary Allegiances of Adoptive Kinship
This article pursues conjectures raised in the conclusions of an earlier essay (Parkes 2001), where I suggested that Eugene Hammel's (1968) classic analysis of Serbian godparenthood might be extended to other kinds of constructed kinship attested in the historical ethnography of Europe and Asia. Hammel's notion of alternative social structures-configurations of mutually exclusive ties of patrilineal descent, affinal alliance, and godparenthood-wa…
Fosterage, Kinship, and Legend: When Milk Was Thicker than Blood
When social ties are put to the test, proverbs affirm, those of consanguinity usually prevail: 'Blood is thicker than water'; or as Arabs put it, 'Blood is thicker than milk' (Lane 1893:1097). These enigmatic adages refer to former institutions ofadoptive kinshipin western Eurasia, contrasting the blood of natal kinship with the water of baptism or 'spiritual kinship' in Christendom, and with infant fosterage or 'milk kinship' in Islam. Other say…
A Pasture in Common: A Twentieth-Century Environmental History of Ewyas Harold Common (Herefordshire)
This paper examines the decline in the use of one Herefordshire common and how this is reflected in changes in the common's ecology. Direct field observation and biological evidence have been combined with oral histories and documentary sources, particularly the records of the Commoners Association and the National Farmers Union Branch Records, photographs, and maps in reconstructing these changes. The paper explores how the common has been recur…
Milk kinship in Islam. Substance, structure, history
The article critically interrogates an influential theory of Françoise Héritier and her associates that purports to explain Islamic milk kinship as the symbolic product of a peculiar Arab folk-physiology of lactation whereby breastmilk is supposed to be transformed male semen. In Part One, this somatic conjecture is shown to be unsubstantiated by extant ethnographies of milk kinship in the Middle East and North Africa. Reviewing its legal and soc…
Celtic Fosterage: Adoptive Kinship and Clientage in Northwest Europe
Historians of Europe may be generally aware of the former significance of Celtic child-fostering, so prominently documented in the law books and legends of medieval Ireland. Yet there is no comprehensive survey of such fosterage from a comparative historical perspective, nor has its archival documentation been collated for analysis. The present essay aims to redress this neglect: it reviews extant evidence of Celtic fosterage in the British Isles…
Milk kinship in Southeast Europe. Alternative social structures and foster relations in the Caucasus and the Balkans
Developing an earlier analysis of milk kinship allegiance in the Hindu Kush mountains of northern Pakistan – elaborated along the lines of Eugene Hammel's pioneering analysis of Serbian spiritual kinship – this essay appropriately returns to other ethnographies of adoptive kinship in Southeast Europe. I examine a hitherto neglected account of milk kinship and child fosterage in the Caucasian statelet of Abkhazia, comparing its tributary formation…
Unwrapping rudeness: Inverted etiquette in an egalitarian enclave
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