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 Kirsten Hastrup FBA

The entanglement of natural & social histories in Iceland & Greenland; the anthropological contribution to climate change research; the history of Artic anthropology; the foundations of anthropological knowledge

Professor Jonathan Parry FBA

Social & cultural anthropology, other branches; South Asia India; anthropology

Professor Philippe Descola FBA

The ethnology of Amazonian Indians, especially of their use and perception of the environment; the comparative anthropology of the relations between nature and society

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