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
George Steiner
An interview with George Steiner. Interviewed and filmed by Alan Macfarlane on 16th and 23rd July. Generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust.
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 13 Apr 2011
Gillian Beer
An interview of the literary critic Gillian Beer. Filmed on 26th January by Alan Macfarlane and edited by Sarah Harrison. Generously sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust.
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Thu 17 Mar 2011
Godfrey Lienhardt
The Frazer Lecture on the legacy of J.G.Frazer, which Godfrey Lienhardt suggests is greater in the field of literature (through its influence on people like T.S.Elliot in the...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 6 Apr 2011
Hal Dixon
An interview with Hal Dixon, Fellow of King's and distinguished bichemist at Cambridge University. talking about his life and work. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane, lasts about fifty...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 21 Mar 2011
Haroon Ahmed
Interview of the scientist and sometime Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Haroon Ahmed. A discussion of his life and work. Filmed on 8th December 2009 by Alan...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 8 Mar 2011
Herbert Huppert
An interview with the Cambridge geophysicist Herbert Huppert about his life and work. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane on 25th May 2009 and edited by Sarah Harrison. Generously supported...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 4 Apr 2011
Hermann Hauser
An interview with the scientist and entrepreneur and co-founder of Acorn computers, Hermann Hauser. Talking about his life and work in helping to build up the 'Cambridge...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 29 Mar 2011
Horace Barlow
Interview with Horace Barlow the neuroscientist, made by Alan Macfarlane on 5th March 2012 and edited by Sarah Harrison .
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 14 Jan 2013
Interveiw with Horace Barlow - second part
Interview of the neuroscientist Horace Barlow by Alan Macfarlane on 5th March 2012, edited by Sarah Harrison
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 31 Jul 2012
Interview of Mark Elvin
Interview of Mark Elvin, filmed on 24 July 2012 by Alan Macfarlane and edited by Sarah Harrison
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Sat 15 Dec 2012
Interview with Horace Barlow
Interview with Horace Barlow the neuroscientist, made by Alan Macfarlane on 5th March 2012 and edited by Sarah Harrison
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 31 Jul 2012
Iona Mayer
Iona Mayer describes her introduction to anthropology in partnership with Philip Mayer and her realization of another world beyond her theoretical models. Iona Mayer interviewed...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 18 Jul 2011
Jack Goody
Jack Goody describes his education, his time as a prisoner of war in Italy, his later career as a distinguished anthropologist in Cambridge. He draws attention to the influence of...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 22 Mar 2011
James Campbell
An interview of the historian James Campbell by Alan Macfarlane on 4 September 2009. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane.
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Thu 10 Jan 2013
James Lee
Interview of Professor James Lee on his life and work in the field of the historical demography - population studies - of China, particularly in the north east. Interview by Alan...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 6 Apr 2011
James Mirrlees
Interview of Sir James Mirrlees, Nobel laureate in economics, covering aspects of his life and work. Interview on 21 September 2009 filmed by Alan Macfarlane and edited by Sarah...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 11 Apr 2011
James Scott
An interview of the anthropologist and sociologist James Scott and his Mellon Lecture in Cambridge. Filmed in Cambridge on 26 March 2009 by Alan Macfarlane and edited by Sarah...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 14 Jan 2013
James Woodburn
Interview of James Woodburn about his life and work in anthropology and visual anthropology in Africa and Britain. Interview and film of James Woodburn by Alan Macfarlane in...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 11 May 2011
Jean and John Comaroff
An interview of the anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff about their life and work. Filmed by Kalman Appelbaum on 15th November 2008 and edited by Sarah Harrison. Generously...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 21 Mar 2011
Jean Bacon
An interview of the Cambridge computer scientist Jean Bacon. Generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust.
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Fri 11 Mar 2011
