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
David Snellgrove
David Snellgrove speaks of his education, admission into the Colonial Service, his wartime experiences in India, travels to Sikkim, studies in Cambridge with Sir Harold Bailey,...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 13 Apr 2011
Don Cupitt
Interview of the theologian and philosopher Don Cupitt about his life and work. Filmed on 16th February 2009 by Alan Macfarlane and edited by Sarah Harrison. Generously supported...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 21 Mar 2011
Edmund Leach
Edmund Leach talks of his youth and early years in China. His inerest in anthropology and work with Malinowski and Raymond Firth at the L.S.E. and his move to Cambridge. Fieldwork...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 5 Apr 2011
Edwin Salpeter
An interview on the life and work of the astrophysicist Edwin Salpeter. The interview was made by Mark Turin on 12th November 2008, two weeks before Salpeter's death. Edited by...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 13 Apr 2011
Elizabeth Colson
Interview of Elizabeth Colson at the ASA Diamond Jubilee Conference, and after-dinner talk on the history of anthropology by the same. Interview by Alan Macfarlane on 11th April...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Fri 18 Mar 2011
Emanuel Marx
Interview of Emanuel Marx on his work in Israel, the influence of Emrys Peters and others, and his work among the Bedouin of the Sinai Desert. The future of Israeli anthropology....
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 18 Jul 2011
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Interview with Professor Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney on her life and work. Interviewed by Kalman Applbaum and Ingrid Jordt on 30th April 2011 and edited by Sarah Harrison.
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Thu 4 Aug 2011
Eric Hobsbaum
An interview on the life and work of the historian Eric Hobsbawm. Interview on 13th September 2009 by Alan Macfarlane and edited by Sarah Harrison. Generously supported by the...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 30 Mar 2011
Ernest Gellner
Public lecture given in October 1989 by Professor Ernest Gellner. He reflected on his year spent in the Soviet Union on the eve of the collapse of communism. The lecture was given...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 21 Mar 2011
F. K. 'Chris' Lehman
Chris Lehman describes his family background in Burma. He then describes his early impressions of Burma, his work among the Kachin, early visits to China. He describes encounters...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 6 Apr 2011
Frank Kermode
An interview of the literary critic, Frank Kermode, talking about his life and work. Filmed on 19th February 2008 by Alan Macfarlane, and edited by Sarah Harrison, about 90...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 4 Apr 2011
Frederick Sanger
An interview with the double Nobel laureate Fred Sanger who sequenced insulin and a phage. Interviewed at his home near Cambridge by Alan Macfarlane on 24th August 2007. Lasts...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 13 Apr 2011
Fredrick Barth
An interview with Professor Fredrick Barth about his anthropological theories and fieldwork in the Middle East, Pakistan and New Guinea. Filmed and interviewed by Professor Robert...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 16 Mar 2011
G.I. Jones
G.I.Jones tells of his childhood, his long service in Nigeria as a colonial officer, his return to Cambridge to teach colonial cadets and other anthropologists. Many reminiscences...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 4 Apr 2011
Gabriel Horn
Interview of Sir Gabriel Horn about his life and work in zoology and biology and his Mastership of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Interviewed by Sir Patrick Bateson on 16th...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Thu 31 Mar 2011
Gary Kildea
A short interview with the anthropological film-maker Gary Kildea about his life and work. Interviewed and filmed by Alan Macfarlane in November 2006, after a showing of Kildea's...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 16 May 2011
Geoff Harcourt
Interview of Geoff Harcourt concerning the development of economics at Cambridge during the second half of the twentieth century, and Harcourt's life and work. Interview of Geoff...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 28 Mar 2011
Geoffrey Hawthorn
An interview of Professor Geoffrey Hawthorn about his life and work. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane on 23rd April 2009 and edited by Sarah Harrison. Generously supported by the...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 29 Mar 2011
Geoffrey Lloyd
An interview with the classicist and philosopher Sir Geoffrey Lloyd in which he describes his life and work and associations with King's College and other Cambridge institutions....
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 6 Apr 2011
George Appell
Interview of George Appell in which he talks frankly about his life and his work as an anthropologist in Borneo. Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 19th April 2004, filmed by Sarah...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 8 Mar 2011
