Seminar and questions with Jean Claude Galey, the director of the Center of South Asian Studies, Paris, on the organization of French academic research, in particular in the...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Mon 21 Mar 2011

An interview of Jean La Fontaine, conducted by Jack Goody. She tells of her colonial background, her education in anthropology in Cambridge. then she describes her work among the...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Tue 5 Apr 2011

Jeremy Boissevain talks of his education, his move into anthropology and his career. In particular he describes his work in network theory and Malta. Interviewed by Alan...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Thu 17 Mar 2011

An interview on the life and work of the chemist Jeremy Sanders. Interviewed and filmed by Alan Macfarlane on 22 September 2009 and edited by Sarah Harrison. Generously supported...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 13 Apr 2011

John Barnes describes his background, education, work in East Africa, work with the Rhodes Livingstone Institute, his time in Australia and finally time as Professor of Social and...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 16 Mar 2011

John Beattie talks of how he came to be an anthropologist and how he came to work in East Africa. The influence of Audrey Richards, Evans-Pritchard and others is described....

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Thu 17 Mar 2011

An interview on the life and work of Professor John Coates, Sadleirian Professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Filmed on Monday 25th February by Alan Macfarlane...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Fri 18 Mar 2011

Col. John P. Cross interviewed in Pokhara, Nepal, by Alan Macfarlane, 16th April 1991.

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Mon 14 Jan 2013

An interview on the life and work of John Dunn. Filmed on 5th March 2008 by Alan Macfarlane and edited by Sarah Harrison. Lasts about two hours. Generously supported by the...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Mon 21 Mar 2011

An interview on the life and work of the distinguished biologist Sir John Gurdon. Interviewed and filmed by Alan Macfarlane on 20th August 2008 and edited by Sarah Harrison....

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Mon 28 Mar 2011

An interview about the life and work of Sir John Meurig Thomas, Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge and sometime Director of the Royal Institution in London and Master of...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Tue 19 Apr 2011

An interview of the Rev. Sir John Polkinghorne, sometime Professor of Physics and President of Queens' College, Cambridge about his life and work in physics and divinity. Filmed...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Tue 12 Apr 2011

Interview of the musician and composer John Rutter about his life and work. Interview of John Rutter on 28 January 2009 by Alan Macfarlane and edited by Sarah Harrison. Generously...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 13 Apr 2011

Interview on the life and work of the mathematician John Simpson, including his war experience in China. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane and Xiaoxiao Yan on 29 April 2004 at his home...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 13 Apr 2011

Interview of Sir John Sulston, Nobel laureate and director of one of the teams which first sequenced the human genome. Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 16 September 2008 and...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Thu 14 Apr 2011

An interview on the life and work of the Nobel laureate Sir John Walker. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane on 14th January 2008 and edited by Sarah Harrison, lasts about 110 minutes....

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Mon 9 May 2011

Interview of Jonathan Benthall on his life and work, in particular as Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane, on 6th December 2005 at...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Thu 17 Mar 2011

An interview on the life and work of the anthropologist Jonathan Parry. Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 5th December 2009 and edited by Sarah Harrison. Generously supported by...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Mon 11 Apr 2011

An Interview with Lord Julian Hunt about his life and work. Interviewed on 1st May and 3rd June 2009 by Alan Macfarlane. Edited and summarized by Sarah Harrison. Generously...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Mon 4 Apr 2011

Interview of Karl Heider, American anthropologist. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane on 30 June 2007, edited by Sarah Harrison, about 90 minutes. Generously supported by the Leverhulme...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Tue 29 Mar 2011