David Parkin#
| Membership Number: | 1466 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-david-parkin |
Present and Previous Positions
- Research professor at the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen, Germany
- Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford
- Honorary Professor ar School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Fields of Scholarship
- Medical anthropology
- Eeastern Africa and the Indian Ocean littoral
- Cross-cultural semantics
- Socio-cultural evolution
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Chairman of the International African Institute and of the Association of Social Anthropologists
- Fellow of the British Academy
