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Authored Books

Parker, John (2021) In My Time of Dying: A History of Death and the Dead in West Africa. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Parker, John and Rathbone, Richard (2007) African History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Allman, Jean and Parker, John (2005) Tongnaab: The History of a West African God. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Parker, John (2000) Making the town: Ga state and society in early colonial Accra. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Reid, Richard and Parker, John, eds. (2013) The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

Reid, Richard and Parker, John (2013) 'Introduction. African Histories: past, present and future.' In: Parker, John and Reid, Richard, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Handbooks in History)

Reid, Richard (2013) 'Warfare and the Military.' In: Parker, John and Reid, Richard, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Parker, John (2005) 'Tongnaab and Nana Tongo in the Religious Landscape of Twentieth-Century Ghana.' In: Hansen, J. and van Dijk, Rijk, (eds.), Religious Modernities in West Africa. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Rpcig.

Parker, John (2000) 'The cultural politics of death and burial in early colonial Accra.' In: Anderson, David M. and Rathbone, Richard, (eds.), Africa's Urban Past. London: James Currey, pp. 205-221.

Parker, John (1998) 'Mankraloi, Merchants and mulattos: Carl Reidorf and the politics of "race" in early colonial Accra.' In: Jenkins, P, (ed.), The Recovery of the West African Past: African Pastors and African History in the Nineteenth Century. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, pp. 31-47.

Journal Article

Parker, John (2006) 'Northern Gothic: Witches, Ghosts and Werewolves in the Savanna Hinterland of the Gold Coast, 1900s-1950s.' Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 76 (3). pp. 352-80.

Parker, John (2004) 'Witchcraft, Anti-Witchcraft and Trans-Regional Ritual Innovation in Early Colonial Ghana: Sakrabundi and Aberewa, 1889-1910.' Journal of African History, 45 (3). pp. 393-420.

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