Alan Macfarlane

Broschiertes Buch

The Science of Life

Andrew Huxley, Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow

Beschreibung

This book is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England's leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. The current volume on two of England's foremost physiologists and a vision scientist is yet another addition to the series of several such books.

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: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 179g
• ISBN-13: 9781032405070
• ISBN-10: 1032405074
• Artikelnr.: 71237530