Alan Macfarlane

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Beschreibung

This book is a collection of interviews conducted by a leading British social anthropologist and historian, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of several years, the three conversations in this volume are a part of the series Creative Lives and Works.

Autor

Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Sedbergh School, Oxford and London Universities where he received two Master's degrees and two doctorates. He is the author of over forty books, including The Origins of English Individualism (1978) and Letters to Lily: On How the World Works (2005). He has worked in England, Nepal, Japan and China as both an historian and anthropologist. He was elected to the British Academy in 1986 and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Professor Macfarlane received the Huxley Memorial Medal, the highest honour of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2012.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9781032405049
• ISBN-10: 103240504X
• Artikelnr.: 65614765