Professor Alan Macfarlane FBA

History Social & Cultural Anthropology, Other Branches

Fellow type: UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected: 1986
Subjects: Anthropology
Sections: Anthropology and Geography
Website: http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Anthropological Science, University of Cambridge; Fellow, King's College, Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor

2009 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Anthropological Science

1991 - 2009

University of Cambridge Professor of Anthropological Science, University of Cambridge

1991 -

University of Cambridge Reader in Historical Anthropology

1981 - 1991

King's College University of Cambridge Fellow

1981 -

Publications

The origins of English individualism 1978

The diary of Ralph Josselin, 1616-1683 (_RSEH ns_ 3, 1976)

The savage wars of peace 1998

The making of the modern world 2002

Japan Through the Looking Glass 2007

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Janet Carsten FBA

The anthropology of kinship with particular reference to Malaysia & Britain, domestic relations, historical migration, the house, adoption reunions, kinship & memory, bodily substance, the interface between popular & medical ideas about blood.

Professor Sarah Kenderdine FBA

Experimental museology and curatorship exploring the convergence of cultural heritage, immersive visualisation, digital aesthetics and cultural (big) data from scientific, artistic and humanistic perspectives

Professor Robert Layton FBA

Social evolution & social change in hunter-gatherer & peasant societies; the anthropology & archaeology of art; indigenous rights

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