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A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
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A selection of films related to the Channel 4 Millenium series on 'The Day the World Took Off', with the kind permission of Windfall Films. Assembled by Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Tue 18 Dec 2012
An introduction to social anthropology. Alan Macfarlane 1988
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A set of four lectures, made in a week on very primitive equipment, to test the potentials of multi-media in teaching, in 1988.
Institution: King's College
Created: Mon 18 Feb 2013
China
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Films relevant to China, based on lectures and visits from 1996 onwards
Institution: King's College
Created: Wed 16 Jan 2013
Classical social theory - 8 lectures by Alan Macfarlane c. 2004
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A set of eight lectures for second year social anthropology students at the University of Cambridge. They give an overview of some theories and theorists in the social sciences, from Montesquieu to Gellner. The series is related to Alan Macfarlane's book 'The Riddle of the Modern World'.
Institution: King's College
Created: Mon 4 Feb 2013
FAMILY ARCHIVES OF ALAN MACFARLANE
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Sets of material relating to the various families with which Professor Alan Macfarlane is related, as they become available: Rhodes James, Swinhoe, Stirling, Jones and other.
Institution: King's College
Created: Tue 12 Feb 2013
How the World Works: Letters to Lily
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Alan Macfarlane in December 2012 reads the thirty letters originally published in 2005 by Profile Books in 'Letters to Lily: On How the World Works'.
There is also a website for the book at http://www.letters2lily.com
Institution: King's College
Created: Wed 2 Jan 2013
Introduction to economic and social anthropology - 8 lectures by Alan Macfarlane 2006
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A set of four lectures on economic anthropology and four on political anthropology, explaining the basic concepts and approaches, given for first year students in Archaeology and Anthropology and Social and Political Sciences in the University of Cambridge in 2006.
Institution: King's College
Created: Mon 4 Feb 2013
Introduction to Kinship and Marriage. Alan Macfarlane
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A series of first year anthropology lectures given in Cambridge from 1975-1983. Filmed in 1984 by the Rivers Video Project team. Compressed from the original and filmed at home.
Institution: King's College
Created: Mon 18 Feb 2013
Japan
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Films of visits and lectures in Japan from 1990 onwards
Institution: King's College
Created: Wed 16 Jan 2013
King's College multimedia
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Recordings of music, discussions, debates and other events organised by King's College.
Institution: King's College
Created: Thu 27 Nov 2008
Lectures and other materials
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Various films I have made of lectures and other teaching and research materials.
Institution: King's College
Created: Wed 21 Nov 2012
Lectures on legal anthropology - Alan Macfarlane 2008
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A series of four lectures given to third-year social anthropology students in the University of Cambridge in February 2008 by Alan Macfarlane.
Institution: King's College
Created: Mon 4 Feb 2013
Lectures: The Cosmologies of Capitalism (1983, 2012) - Alan Macfarlane
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Originally a series of eight lectures given to second-year students in the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge as a foundation course in the development of social theories. Given in the early 1980's originally and then expanded, filmed and turned into a larger set in December 2012 to...
Institution: King's College
Created: Sun 10 Feb 2013
Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
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Seventeen lectures given in March-April 2011 at the Tsinghua Academy of Chinese Learning, University of Tsinghua, Beijing, China, given by Professor Alan Macfarlane and funded by the Kaifeng Foundation. All other credits and details are on the individual films. Further materials, including the text...
Institution: King's College
Created: Tue 17 May 2011
Talks, lectures and seminars
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Audio or video material from talks, lectures and seminars that are organised by King's College.
Institution: King's College
Created: Sat 4 Oct 2008
Training for social anthropology - Alan Macfarlane
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A set of seminars and lectures given to students in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, to help prepare them for fieldwork and writing up their dissertations.
Institution: King's College
Created: Mon 4 Feb 2013
