David Parkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 80874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Parkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Parkin |
| SIGNATURE | PARKIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9990-8208 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 96 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 517 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice
Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called “humoral medical traditions,” as they have flourished around the globe during the last 2,000 years. Exploring notions of “balance” in medical cultures across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas, from antiquity to the present, the volume revisits “harmony” and “holism” as main characteristics of those traditions. It foregrounds a dynamic notion o…
Introduction: Emergence and convergence
Accounts from developers of generic health state utility instruments explain why they produce different Qalys: A qualitative study
Town and Country in Central and Eastern Africa: Studies Presented and Discussed at the Twelfth International African Seminar, Lusaka, September 1972
Invocation: Salaa, Dua, Sadaka and the Question of Self-determination
This chapter continues the theme of the communicative power of prayer as offering the opportunity for imaginative engagement with divinity and thence influencing this-worldly concerns. The local description and practice of salaa conform to a widespread Islamic pattern. Despite the recognised differences in the nature of these two kinds of event, the Islamic and non-Islamic, the term sadaka does not differentiate between them. It argues that praye…
Town and Country in Central and Eastern Africa
The role and power of the multi-national corporations is recognized and much debated with reference to North America, Europe and other parts of the world. But a similar process involving foreign companies generally is also evident in Africa, in which labour is seen as the most abundant resource and therefore relatively cheap. Each East and Central African country has a growing abundance of young, increasingly more educated people who aspire to th…
Transformations of African Marriage
Islamic Prayer Across the Indian Ocean: Inside and Outside the Mosque
Five (or so) books and their influence: David Parkin in conversation
An exploration of differences between Japan and two European countries in the self-reporting and valuation of pain and discomfort on the EQ-5D
This study provides evidence of between-country differences in the self-reporting and valuation of health, including pain/discomfort, when using EQ-5D in general population samples. The results suggest a need for caution when comparing or aggregating EQ-5D self-reported data in multi-country studies
Loud ethics and quiet morality among Muslim healers in Eastern Africa
The professional ethics of biomedicine in Eastern Africa are usually sharply distinguished from the everyday moral concerns of patients, who may interpret healthcare treatment differently from their doctors. Biomedical doctors' pronouncements adhere to the ethical demands of formal training, while ordinary people form their own moral ideas about biomedicine, with the two discourses meeting only during medical-moral crises. The voice of biomedicin…
Paul Spencer, 1932-2015
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Evil in Africa: Encounters with the Everyday
Ritual
English regional dialect lexis in the names and occupations of the Gloucestershire Cotswolds: A reassessment of the relationship between names and dialects
A number of surname-based studies have presented a relationship between medieval regional dialect lexis and the distribution of associated modern-day surnames. However, by carrying out localised research, it appears that the two might not be so closely linked as previously thought, with discrepancies in the distribution of regionally specific names and equivalent occupational descriptions. As a result, there seems to be a need to reconsider the c…
Evil in Africa: Encounters with the everyday
Introduction: African Notions of Evil: The Chimera of Justice Walter E.A. van Beek and William C. Olsen Part I. Evil and the State/War 1. Political Evil: Witchcraft from the Perspective of the Bewitched Sonia Silva 2. Untying Wrongs in Northern Uganda Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika 3. The Evil of Insecurity in South Sudan: Violence and Impunity in Africa's Newest State Jok Madut Jok 4. Genocide, Evil and Human Agency: The Conc…
Long-Term Worries after Colposcopy: Which Women Are at Increased Risk
Ships and the Development of Maritime Technology on the Indian Ocean
Recognising the fundamental role both of shipping communities and the technologies crafted and shared by them, this book explores the types of ships, methods of navigation and modes of water-borne trade in the Indian Ocean region and the way they affected the development of distinctive settlements against a changing but strong sense of regional consciousness and identity. While maritime conflicts were not especially pronounced before European inv…
Turning Therapies: Placing Medical Diversity
Pathways to Healing: Curative Travel among Muslims and Non-Muslims in Eastern East Africa
Two areas of therapeutic provision in eastern East Africa are contrasted: a coastal stretch inhabited mainly by Muslims, and a largely non-Muslim hinterland, each with its own healers, medicines, and customary ethic. Spread over both areas are providers of biomedicine associated originally, and to some extent today, with Christianity. Whether or not they also attend biomedical sites, Muslims seek healers in the coastal stretch and non-Muslims usu…
Assessing the performance of the EQ-VAS in the NHS PROMs programme
EQ-VAS data might be improved by providing better guidance on collection and coding. It is argued that the observed differences in results from EQ-VAS and other measures of health reflect the fact that it measures a broader underlying construct of health, arguably providing a means of summarising overall health that is closer to the patient's perspective
Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward
This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties in much of Africa created expectations of increased development, education and living standards. There was hope that ethnic tensions arising from false colonial boundaries might be transcended by newly emerging socio-economic status-groups. However, …
Surname Typology and the Problem of Inconsistent Classification
This paper analyzes methodological inconsistency in surname classification, and the implications this has for the comparability of different works. Many studies have organized surnames by type, based on each name’s ‘meaning,’ in order to identify national trends and regional differences in surnaming patterns. However, the ambiguity of ‘meaning’ and the lack of any standard classificatory practice mean that such studies are incomparable. By review…
Peak or prolonged: The Paradox of Health Crisis as Subjective Chronicity
Medical crises and therapeutic talk
Coexisting medical traditions operate at different levels of scale. In rural eastern Africa there are diviners and herbalists whose clients are drawn from the immediate neighbourhood. Some develop healing reputations more widely over a region or nation, sometimes with prophetic and witch-finding powers. Biomedical clinics and hospitals are also interlinked regionally, nationally and internationally. Patients or carers may seek healthcare by movin…
Mementoes as Transitional Objects in Human Displacement
This article argues for a theoretical extension in anthropology from the post-Cartesian depiction of body and mind as one (rather than as separable) to the idea that this composite body-mind can be regarded as enmeshed in social trails created by the movement of objects. Movements of persons therefore occur with or in relation to the objects to which people attach themselves. Such everyday movements need to be contrasted with those dramatically r…
Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment, and Development
Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward
This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties in much of Africa created expectations of increased development, education and living standards. There was hope that ethnic tensions arising from false colonial boundaries might be transcended by newly emerging socio-economic status-groups. However, …
Medicines and Men of Influence
Swahili Mijikenda: Facing both ways in Kenya
Opening ParagraphI describe a people who, in aspiring to Swahili Islamic values and life style, marginalise themselves economically and politically.The title of the article both indicates the dilemma of their identity and, for scholars who study Swahili-speaking peoples, is deliberately provocative. How can people whom we call or who call themselves Swahili possibly also be referred to as Mijikenda? After all, these two peoples have in other desc…
Wafting on the wind: Smell and the Cycle of Spirit and Matter
Over the centuries among many peoples, wind, air, breath, and notions of soul and life-force have been regarded as intertwined semantically and in their effects on the world. Humans and intangible and invisible non-human agents are often said to share these elements. Life as breath and wind as spirit, and both as evidence of consciousness, intention or soul, allow persons to abridge what they otherwise view as the separate domains of solid and no…
Politics of Ritual Syncretism: Islam Among the Non-Muslim Giriama of Kenya
Ritual Syncretism as Cultural BorrowingLeach in his study of the Kachin interpreted disputes over claims to administer ritual or to recite myths as a means whereby politically opposed factions sought to assert their independence or their dominance (Leach, 1954, p. 278). He also showed that in this competition the Kachin made use of ritual and other cultural elements which they had adopted from the Shans and were using for political ends
Palms, Wine, and Witnesses: Public Spirit and Private Gain in an African Farming Community
Savanna Town: Rural Ties and Urban Opportunities in Northern Kenya
Continuity and Autonomy in Swahili Communities: Inland Influences and Strategies of Self-Determination
The Creativity of Abuse
While greetings, terms of address, jocular abuse, and other ritualised verbal exchanges, reflect and help interpret social changes, they also contain within themselves an independent dynamic. This consists of a constant alternation of fixed and variant forms and thereby throws up the opportunities for social comment and criticism. Exchanges of ritual and jocular abuse involve most linguistic awareness and, while retaining a formulaic shape, provi…
Nemi in the Modern World: Return of the Exotic
Dans Le Rameau d'Or, Frazer decrit le meurtre rituel du pretre-roi a Nemi et son identification personnelle avec le chene auquel on le marie. Cet exemple de vieil exotisme illustre bien les artifices litteraires qui ont servi a objectifier l'autre et a le tenir a bonne distance du chercheur occidental. Une nouvelle forme d'exotisme rend plutot compte des relations et identifications entre objets et personnnes, toujours changeantes. Le fetichisme,…
Medical crises and therapeutic talk
Coexisting medical traditions operate at different levels of scale. In rural eastern Africa there are diviners and herbalists whose clients are drawn from the immediate neighbourhood. Some develop healing reputations more widely over a region or nation, sometimes with prophetic and witch-finding powers. Biomedical clinics and hospitals are also interlinked regionally, nationally and internationally. Patients or carers may seek healthcare by movin…
Blank banners and Islamic consciousness in Zanzibar
Ships and the Development of Maritime Technology on the Indian Ocean
Recognising the fundamental role both of shipping communities and the technologies crafted and shared by them, this book explores the types of ships, methods of navigation and modes of water-borne trade in the Indian Ocean region and the way they affected the development of distinctive settlements against a changing but strong sense of regional consciousness and identity. While maritime conflicts were not especially pronounced before European inv…
Anthropologists in a Wider World: Essays on Field Research
Paul Dresch, Wendy James and David Parkin (eds.), Anthropologists in a Wider World: Essays on Field Research, New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2000, xiv + 310 pages.Reviewer: Ian CoshYork UniversityAs the editors of this volume remind us, times are tough for British anthropology, for reasons that will resonate with Canadians: neo-conservative budget priorities are making it to carry on the tradition of extended, open-ended fieldwork. From a certain…
The Multicultural States of East Africa
Urban Voluntary Associations Asinstitutions of Adaptation
An Interview with Raymond Firth
Black Africa: Its Peoples and Their Cultures Today
Peak or prolonged: The Paradox of Health Crisis as Subjective Chronicity
Language, Culture and Communication
Turning Therapies: Placing Medical Diversity
Pathways to Healing: Curative Travel among Muslims and Non-Muslims in Eastern East Africa
Two areas of therapeutic provision in eastern East Africa are contrasted: a coastal stretch inhabited mainly by Muslims, and a largely non-Muslim hinterland, each with its own healers, medicines, and customary ethic. Spread over both areas are providers of biomedicine associated originally, and to some extent today, with Christianity. Whether or not they also attend biomedical sites, Muslims seek healers in the coastal stretch and non-Muslims usu…
The Commercialisation of Biomedicine and the Politics of Flight in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Asylum-seekers from Zanzibar feel obliged to highlight what they regard as criteria for entry and settlement in the UK which are acceptable to the British authorities. This is one dimension of a narrative of physical and socio-economic ill-being which covers political persecution. A second dimension is that deriving from the seekers’ own domestic and socio-cultural circumstances, in which relationships of family, political party, workplace and ge…
Sea Waves and Beach Cusps
Although the formation and destruction of beach cusps is manifestly associated with the action of waves breaking on a beach, there are few studies known to us in which the sea waves have been recorded continuously at the time that the movement of material is taking place. This paper describes briefly some observations and experi? ments that were carried out in two places on the south coast of England, at Tide Mill near Seaford, and on Chesil Bank…
Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society
Urban Voluntary Associations Asinstitutions of Adaptation
Types of Urban African Marriage in Kampala
Opening ParagraphThis paper analyses factors affecting the variable character of urban marriage patterns in the predominantly African city ward of Kampala East, Uganda. Kampala city comprises two other wards, both of which accommodate considerable proportions of Asians and Europeans. Skirting the west and south of the city is the Kibuga, meaning capital in the local vernacular, Luganda. The Kibuga, like Kampala East, is also predominantly African…
Medicines and Men of Influence
Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward
This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties in much of Africa created expectations of increased development, education and living standards. There was hope that ethnic tensions arising from false colonial boundaries might be transcended by newly emerging socio-economic status-groups. However, …
Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward
The Multicultural States of East Africa
Politics of Ritual Syncretism: Islam Among the Non-Muslim Giriama of Kenya
Ritual Syncretism as Cultural BorrowingLeach in his study of the Kachin interpreted disputes over claims to administer ritual or to recite myths as a means whereby politically opposed factions sought to assert their independence or their dominance (Leach, 1954, p. 278). He also showed that in this competition the Kachin made use of ritual and other cultural elements which they had adopted from the Shans and were using for political ends
Black Africa: Its Peoples and Their Cultures Today
African Businessmen: A Study of Entrepreneurship and Development in Kenya
African Elite: The Big Men of a Small Town
Palms, Wine, and Witnesses: Public Spirit and Private Gain in an African Farming Community
The Sociology of Urban Living
National independence and local tradition in a Kenya trading centre
It is, of course, for his immense contribution to linguistics and the general study of African languages that Wilfred Whiteley is known. It is sometimes forgotten that he was originally trained as an anthropologist and, moreover, retained this disciplinary thrust in his treatment of linguistic problems. In a truly extraordinary manner he was able to keep up to date with much anthropo-logical literature, a fact of considerable significance in his …
Some Socio-Economic Aspects of African Entrepreneurship
Language in Social Groups
Language, Culture and Communication
Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach
Language, Psychology, and Culture: Essays
AFR volume 46 issue 2 Cover
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Anthropology and Linguistics: A Reader and Workbook
Town and Country on Central and Eastern Africa
Town and Country in Central and Eastern Africa
Industrial and Urban Growth in the Third World
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