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

Based on observations during years of fieldwork in Manding dating back to 1988, this presentation analyses a recording of one person as a group or team performance. I will show...

Collection: World Oral Literature Project Workshop 2010

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Tue 22 Mar 2011

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

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

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

The economist John Maynard Keynes spent much of his life in Cambridge, connected to King's College. Alan Macfarlane reflects on a few aspects of his life and work. Filmed by Xu...

Collection: Reflections on Cambridge

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Thu 23 Aug 2012

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

Although the proposition may at first seem counterintuitive, humankind’s oldest and newest technologies of communication are fundamentally homologous. To put it succinctly, oral...

Collection: World Oral Literature Project Workshop 2010

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 19 Jan 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