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Author:   David Parkin (Universities of Oxford and Oxford Brookes)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780631154327

ISBN 10:   0631154329
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   29 January 1987
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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David Parkin is Emeritus Professor at Oxford University and Honorary Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has carried out a number of years' fieldwork among different peoples and in different ecologies: the Luo of western Kenya, the Giriama of eastern Kenya, and Swahili-speakers in Zanzibar and Mombasa on Islam, cultural politics, healing?and?cross-cultural semantics. Parkin is former chairman of the International African Institute and of the Association of Social Anthropologists, elected fellow of the British Academy, and since 2009 has been research professor at the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen, Germany, focusing on medical and sociolinguistic processes of diversification.

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