Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
| Created: | 2011-01-19 17:06 |
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| Institution: | Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology |
| Description: | Archival interviews with leading scientists, anthropologists, historians, ethno-musicologists, international travellers and others. Mostly interviewed and filmed by Professor Alan Macfarlane, with summaries and context provided by Sarah Harrison, and some assistance from Dr Mark Turin. The interviews were added to the Streaming Media Service by Claire Wheeler in March 2011.
Generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust. |
Media items
This collection contains 206 media items.
Media items
Raymond Apthorpe
Interview with Raymond Apthorpe on his early life and training in Social Anthropology. Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 16 April 1989. An uncompleted interview of about 45...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 8 Mar 2011
Raymond Firth
Raymond Firth describes his early education in New Zealand, the influence of Malinowski and his fieldwork in Tikopia in the Pacific. Raymond Firth interviewed by Alan Macfarlane...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 21 Mar 2011
Richard Friend
An Interview on the life of the Cavendish Professor of Physics, Sir Richard Friend. Interviewed and filmed by Alan Macfarlane on 21 May 2008. Edited by Sarah Harrison. Generously...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 21 Mar 2011
Richard Keynes
Interview of Richard Keynes, retired Professor of physiology at Cambridge and great grandson of Charles Darwin, on his life and work. Interviewed on 26th September 2007 by Alan...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 5 Apr 2011
Richard Sennett
Interview of the sociologist Richard Sennett who talks about his life and work. Also a lecture on 'Sociology as Literature' delivered at Cambridge. Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 13 Apr 2011
Richard Smethurst
An interview on the life and work of the economist and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, Richard Smethurst. Filmed on 29th September 2010 by Alan Macfarlane and edited by...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 7 Jun 2011
Richard Smith
An interview with the historian and historical geographer Richard Smith about his life and work. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane on 12 April 2011 and edited by Sarah Harrison.
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 30 Aug 2011
Richard Wilson
An interview of the previous Cabinet Secretary and current Master of Emmanuel College, Lord Richard Wilson. Interviewed on 20th November 2009 by Alan Macfarlane and edited by...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 11 May 2011
Robert Foley
An interview of Professor Robert Foley on his life and work. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane on 27th April 2010 and edited by Sarah Harrison. Generously supported by the Leverhulme...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 11 May 2011
Robert Hinde
Interview of the ethologist Professor Robert Hinde, sometime Master of St John's College, Cambridge and Fellow of the Royal Society, about his life and work. Filmed on 7th and...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 30 Mar 2011
Robert Paine
Robert Paine reviews his life as an anthropologist - his training and fieldwork with the Saami nomands of Norway in the 1950's; the inception of the Anthropology Department at...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 11 Apr 2011
Robert Rowthorn
An interview on the life and work of the Cambridge economist Bob Rowthorn. Filmed and interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 13 June 2008. Edited by Sarah Harrison. Generously...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 13 Apr 2011
Rodney Needham
An interview with the anthropologist Rodney Needham. Filmed in Canberra in 1979 by Timothy Asch, in conversation with James J. Fox. Generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust.
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 11 Apr 2011
Ronald Dore
Interview of Ronald Dore about his life, education and work on the sociology of Japan. 31st March 2003, interviewed by Alan Macfarlane and filmed by Sarah Harrison, lasts about...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 21 Mar 2011
Ronald Frankenberg
An interview with Ronald Frankenberg about his training in anthropology, contacts with other anthropologists such as Gluckman, and fieldwork in a Welsh border village. Interview...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 21 Mar 2011
Rosemary Firth
An interview with Rosemary Firth about her arrival in anthropology and fieldwork in Malaya with Raymond Firth. The position of a woman anthropologist. Interview of Rosemary Firth...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 21 Mar 2011
Roy Wagner
Interview on the life and work of the social anthropologist Roy Wagner in Melanesia and elsewhere. Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 9th June 2008 and edited by Sarah Harrison. It...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 9 May 2011
Ruth Finnegan
Interview of Ruth Finnegan. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane in January 2008, transcript by Sarah Harrison. About two hours. Generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust.
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 21 Mar 2011
Sally Falk Moore
An interview with the anthropologist Sally Falk Moore. Interviewed by Kalman Applbaum on 24 August 2008 and edited and summarized by Sarah Harrison. Generously supported by the...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 11 Apr 2011
Scarlett Epstein
Interview on the life and work of Scarlett Epstein from her childhood in Vienna, through to her work as an anthropologist and development expert in New Guinea and India. An...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 21 Mar 2011

