Professor David Parkin

Publications

Monographs

• (with Stanley Ulijaszek) Holistic anthropology: convergences and emergences (Berghahn, Oxford and New York, 2007)
  [Includes: Introduction and chapter entitled ‘The visceral in the social: the crowd as paradigmatic type’]
• The Sacred Void: Spatial Images of Work and Ritual among the Giriama of Kenya (Cambridge University Press. Cambridge and New York, 1991) (traditional medicine, fertility and selfhood)
• The Cultural Definition of Political Response: Lineal Destiny among the Luo of Kenya (Academic Press, London and New York, 1978) [polygyny, fertility and generational change]
• Palms, Wine and Witnesses: Public Spirit and Private Gain in an African Farming Community (Chandler,San Francisco, 1972; new edition,Waveland, Ohio, 1994)
• Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward (California U.P., Berkeley, and Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1969)

Edited Monographs

• (with Ruth Barnes) Ships and the Development of Maritime Technology across the Indian Ocean (Curzon Press, 2002)
• (with P. Dresch and W. James (eds.)) Anthropologists in a Wider World: Essays on Field Research (Oxford, 2000), ch. 4: ‘Templates, evocations and the long-term fieldworker’ and Epilogue ‘Fieldwork Unfolding’
• (with Stephen C.Headley) Islamic Prayer across the Indian Ocean: Inside and Outside the Mosque (Curzon Press, 2000) [Introduction: ‘Inside and outside the mosque: a master trope’; and chapter 7: ‘Invocation: salaa, dua, sadaka and the question of self-determination’]
• (with F. Le Guennec-Coppens) Pouvoir et Autorité chez les Swahili (Karthal, Paris, 1998) [Introduction and chapter]
• (with L. Caplan and H. Fisher) The Politics of Cultural Performance (Berghahn, Oxford and New York, 1996) [including 10,000 word introduction entitled: ‘Anthropology of the Bizarre’]
• Continuity and Autonomy in Swahili Communities: Inland Influences and Strategies of Self-determination. (Afro-Pub: Beitrage zur Afrikanistik Band 48, Universitat Wien; and School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1994)
• (with E. Croll) Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Development and the Environment (with two joint introductory chapters) (Routledge. London and New York, 1992) [Contains discussion of the relationship between ecological and community change]
• (with Francois Constantin) Social Stratification in Swahili Society (with chapter) Special issue of Africa 59, 2 (1989), pp. 139–220
• (with David Nyamwaya) Transformations of African Marriage [with introduction] (Manchester University Press for International African Institute, 1987) [Includes further comparative discussion of marriage, polygyny, fertility etc.]
• Swahili Language and Society [with joint introduction and separate chapter] (University of Vienna, 1985)
• The Anthropology of Evil [with introduction and chapter] (Blackwel1s, Oxford, 1985) [A cross-cultural discussion of concepts of evil, including ill-health and its causes]
• Semantic Anthropology [with introduction] (ASA Monograph No. 22. Academic Press. London and New York, 1982)
• Town and Country in Central and Eastern Africa [with introduction and chapter], (University of Oxford Press for International African Institut, 1975)

Chapters and articles

• Introduction and chapter entitled The visceral in the social: the crowd as paradigmatic type. In D. Parkin and S. Ulijaszek (co-eds). Holistic Anthropology: Emergence and Convergence. (Berghahn. Oxford and New York, 2007).
• The accidental in religious instruction: ideas and convictions. In D. Berliner and R. Sarro (eds). Learning religion. (Berghahn. Oxford and New York, 2007)
• ‘Wafting on the wind: smell and the cycle of spirit and matter’. In a special issue of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Edited by Elisabeth Hsu and Chris Low (2007)
• ‘In touch without touching: Islam and healing,’ in R. Littlewood (ed.),On knowing and not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine. (Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, CA., 2007) pp. 194–219
• ‘Art that dances and art that patrols: two groups in Zanzibar’. In R. Loimeier and R. Seesman,The Global Worlds of the Swahili. (Lit Verlag. Berlin, 2007)
• ‘The commercialisation of biomedicine and the politics of flight in Zanzibar’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2005) (Reprinted from Parkin 2003 below).
• ‘Introduction’ to reissue of A.W. Southall. Alur Society (1956) (Lit Verlag, 2004)
• ‘In the nature of human landscape: provenances in the making of Zanzibari politics’, in J. Clammer. S. Poirier and E. Schwimmer (eds.), Figured Worlds: Ontological Obstacles in Intercultural Relations (University of Toronto Press, 2004)
• ‘Textile as commodity, dress and text: Swahili kanga and women's statements’, in R. Barnes (ed.) Textiles in Indian Ocean Societies.(Curzon Routledge, 2004)
• ‘The commercialisation of biomedicine and the politics of flight in Zanzibar, Tanzania’, in R. Cohen (ed). Migration and Health in Southern Africa. (Capetown. Van Shaik Publications, 2003) (see also above 2005)
• ‘Preface’ to D. Parkin and R. Barnes (eds.), Ships and the Development of Maritime Technology across the Indian Ocean (Curzon Press, 2002)
• ‘Escaping cultures: the paradox of cultural creativity’, in J. Liep (ed.), Locating Cultural Creativity. (London, Pluto Press, 2001)
• Epilogue: Fieldwork Unfolding. In P. Dresch, W. James and D. Parkin (eds.) Anthropologists in a Wider World: Essays on Field Research (Berghahn, Oxford, 2000)
• ‘Islam among the humors: destiny and agency among the Swahili’ in I. Karp and D. Masolo (eds.) African philosophy as cultural enquiry (Indiana UP: Bloomington, 2000)
• The power of incompleteness: innuendo in Swahili women's dress. In B. Masquelier and J-L Siran (eds) Pour une anthropologie de l'interlocution: rhétoriques du quotidien Paris. (L'Harmattan, 2000)
• ‘Inside and outside the mosque: a master trope’, in D. Parkin and S. Headley (eds.) Islamic Prayer across the Indian Ocean (London, Curzo, 2000)
• Templates, evocations and the long-term fieldworker. In P. Dresch, W. James and D. Parkin (eds.) Anthropologists in a Wider World: Essays on Field Research (Berghahn, Oxford, 2000)
• Mementoes as transitional objects in human displacement. Journal of Material Culture. Vol. 4. No 3. (1999) 303-20.
• Suffer many healers. Conclusion to J.Hinnells and R. Porter (eds.) Religion, Health and Suffering (Kegan Paul, London, 1999)
• Entries. The dictionary of anthropology Edited T.J. Barfield (Blackwell, 1998)
• Entry entitled Ethnicity and identity in eastern Africa. For The encyclopaedia of sub-Saharan Africa Edited J. Middleton. (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1997)
• Disputing human passion: the negotiation of the meaning of love among the Giriama of Kenya. In P. Caplan (ed). Understanding dispute (Berg, Oxford, 1995)
• ‘Latticed knowledge: elimination and the dispersal of the unpalatable in Islam, medicine and anthropological theory’ in R. Fardon (ed.) Counterwork: Managing Knowledge in its Diversity (Routledge, London and New York, 1995)
• Blank banners and Islamic consciousness in Zanzibar. In Anthony Cohen and N.Rapport (eds.) Questions of Consciousness. ASA Monograph (Routledge, London, 1995)
• ‘Introduction’ to D. Parkin (ed.) Continuity and autonomy in Swahili communities (1994)
• ‘Language, government and the play on purity and impurity: Arabic, Swahili and the vernaculars in Kenya’ In R. Fardon and G. Furniss (eds) African languages, development and the state (Routledge, London, 1994)
• ‘Sadaka: focus of contradictory continuity’ in D. Parkin (ed.) Continuity and Autonomy in Swahili Communities (1994, qv supra).
• ‘Maulidi: Wahabism, bida and other mind-body divisions in Islam’ in S. Heald and A. Deluz (eds.) Anthropology and Psychoanalysis (Routledge, London, 1994)
• ‘Relativity as contestation’. In D. Raven, L. van Vucht Tissen and J. de Wolf (eds.) Cognitive relativism and social science (Transaction Publishers. New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1992) pp. 149–164.
• ‘Nemi in the modern world: return of the exotic?’ Man 28: 1 (1993), 79–99 [Frazer Lecture, delivered at the University of Oxford, November l991]
• Ritual as spatial direction and bodily division. In D.de Coppet (ed) Understanding Ritual (Routledge, London, 1992).
• Unpacking anthropology (review article of E. Ardener "The voice of prophecy") in Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 23:1 (1992), 57–65.
• l992 (with E. Croll) Anthropology, the environment and development. In E. Croll and D. Parkin (eds) Bush base, forest farm qv
• ‘The Nuer prophet: the personification of dialogue’ in Hermine G. De Soto (ed.) Culture and Contradiction: Dialectics of Wealth, Power and Symbol (E.M. Texts, San Francisco, 1992)
• (with E. Croll) ‘Cultural understandings of the environment’. In E. Croll and D. Parkin (eds) Bush base, forest farm (1992), qv.
• 1991(a) Simultaneity and sequencing in the oracular speech of Kenyan diviners. In P. Peek (ed) African divination systems Indiana University Press. Bloomington.
• ‘Intra- et extraversion des reseaux swahiliphones - Les Digo de Mtwapa (Kenya)’ in F. Le Guennec-Coppens and P. Caplan (eds) Les Swahili entre Afrique et Arabie (Credu-Karthala. Paris, 1991)
• Signe In P. Bonte and M. Izard (eds) Dictionnaire de l'ethnographie et de l'anthropologie (Presses Universitaires de France. Paris, 1991), pp. 666–667.
• ‘Att bega karlek i Afrika eller Den brottsligga passionen’ Ottar No. 2 (l991), pp.33–45 (ISBN 91-7998-013-9). Goteborg. Sweden.
• ‘Eastern Africa: the view from the office and the voice from the field’ in R. Fardon (ed.) Localizing Strategies: Regional Traditions of Ethnographic Writing (Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, and Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1990)
• ‘The politics of naming among the Giriama’ in R.D. Grillo (ed) Social Anthropology and the Politics of Language Sociological Review Monograph No. 36. (Routledge. London and New York, 1989)
• ‘Swahili Mijikenda: facing both ways in Kenya’ in D. Parkin and F. Constantin (eds.) Social Stratification in Swahili Society, (1989, see above under edited books), pp. 161–175.
• An interview with Raymond Firth, Current Anthropology 29,2 (1988)
• Mythes et fantaisies post-structuralistes. in Gradhiva 2. (Editions Jean-Michel Place, Paris 75005, for the Department of Archives and Ethnology, Musee de l'Homme, Paris, 1987)
• ‘Comparison as the search for continuity’ In L. Holy (ed) Comparative Anthropology (Blackwell, Oxford, 1987)
• Introduction to D. Parkin and D. Nyamwaya (eds) Transformations of African Marriage (Manchester University Press, 1987), qv above
• ‘Towards an apprehension of fear’ In D. Scruton (ed.) Sociophobics: the Anthropology of Fear (Westview Press. USA, 1986)
• 1986(a) Violence and will . In D. Riches (ed) The anthropology of violence Blackwell.
• 1985(f) Reason, emotion and the embodiment of power. In J. Overing (ed) Reason and morality ASA Monograph No. 24. Tavistock. London.
• l985(e) Controlling the U-turn of knowledge. In R. Fardon (ed) Power and knowledge Scottish Academic Press. Edinburgh.
• l985(d) Being and selfhood among intermediary Swahili. In J. Maw and D. Parkin (eds) Swahili language and society qv above.
• l985(c) Introduction to J. Maw and D. Parkin (eds) Swahili language and society qv above.
• l985(b) Entitling evil: Muslims and non-Muslims in coastal Kenya. In D. Parkin (ed) The anthropology of evil qv above
• Introduction to D. Parkin (ed) The anthropology of Evil (1985) [qv above]
• l984 Political language. Annual review of anthropology 13:345-65.
• ‘Straightening the paths from wilderness: simultaneity and sequencing in divinatory speech’, Paideuma 28 (1982), 71-83.
• Kind bridewealth and hard cash: eventing a structure. In J. Comaroff (ed) The meaning of marriage payments. (Academic Press. London and New York, 1980)
• The creativity of abuse (Curl lecture l979). Man 15 (1980), pp. 45-64.
• Straightening the paths from wilderness. Journal of the anthropological society of Oxford 10 (1979)147-60
• ‘The categorization of work: cases from coastal Kenya’ in S. Wallman (ed) Social Anthropology of Work, ASA Monograph No. 19 (Academic Press. London and New York, 1979)
• ‘Along the line of road’. In S. Southall (ed.) Rural Centres in African Development Special issue of Africa 49 (1979), pp. 272–82
• Stabilized and emergent multilingualism. In H. Giles (ed) Language, Ethnicity and Inter-group Relations (Academic Press. London and New York, 1977)
• Exchanging words in B. Kapferer (ed) Transaction and Meaning (Institute for the Study of Human Affairs. Philadelphia, 1976)
• ‘The rhetoric of responsibility’ in M. Bloch (ed) Political language and oratory in traditional society (Academic Press. London and New York, 1975)
• l974 Congregational and interpersonal ideologies in political ethnicity. In Abner Cohen (ed) Urban ethnicity ASA Monograph No. 12. Tavistock. London.
• National independence and locat tradition in a Kenyan trading centre. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Vol. 37 (1974), pp. 157-74 (Issue dedicated to the memory of W.H.Whiteley).
• Chapters 5–8 in W.H. Whiteley (ed.) Language in Kenya (University of Oxford Press, Nairobi and London, 1974)
• Contributions on the Luo and Giriama (with M. Parkin) in A. Molnos (ed) Cultural Source Materials for Population Planning in East Africa, vols. 1, 2 and 3 (Institute of African Studies, East African Publishing House. Nairobi, 1972-3)
• ‘Language choice in two Kampala housing estates’ in W.H. Whiteley (ed.) Language Use and Social Change (University of Oxford Press for International African Institute, London, 1971)
• Anti-tribalismus in Uganda. Internationales Afrika Forum 6 (1970)369-75. Weltforum Verlag. Munich.
• Politics of ritual syncretism. Africa 40 (1970) 217-33
• ‘Tribe as fact and fiction’ in P.H. Gulliver (ed.) Tradition and Transition in East Africa (Routledge and Kegan Paul. London, 1969)
• Medicines and men of influence. Man 3 (1968):424-39
• Urban voluntary associations as institutions of adaptation. Man, n.s. 1 (1966) 1, pp. 90-95. Reprinted in P.Wilmot (ed) Sociology in Africa. Volume 2. (1l973) Zaria. Nigeria.
• Patterns of urban marriage in Kampala. Africa 36 (1966) pp. 269-85. Reprinted in C. Turnbull (ed) Africa in transition Random House. New York.

Numerous book reviews over the years