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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
Alan Macfarlane reads some of his favourite British poetry
15 total views
A collection of some of the poetry written by British poets, from Shakespeare to Yeats, which I have found most moving and enjoyable.
Written simply to a film camera in later 2019.
Institution: King's College
Created: Thu 3 Oct 2019
An introduction to social anthropology. Alan Macfarlane 1988
740 total views
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
Burma
26 total views
Films taken in or related to Burma (Myanmar) by Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison
Institution: King's College
Created: Sun 4 Jan 2015
Carnival - History and Anthropology
48 total views
In 1975 the SSRC asked Alan Macfarlane to organize a series of interdisciplinary seminars on history and anthropology. The first and fourth were filmed and edited by Martin Gienke and the Audio Visual Aids Unit in Cambridge with the assistance of Sarah Harrison.
The original tapes were rescued...
Institution: King's College
Created: Wed 28 Feb 2018
China
133 total views
Films relevant to China, based on lectures and visits from 1996 onwards
Institution: King's College
Created: Wed 16 Jan 2013
China Visit 2005
220 total views
A visit to various parts of Chna by Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison, accompanied on the journey by Xiaoxiao Yan and in Yunnan by Xiao Ma. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane in October and November 2005.
Institution: King's College
Created: Thu 13 Aug 2015
Chinese Documentary Films
42 total views
A series of films made by distinguished Chinese film-makers who kindly made them available for me to upload in the West.
Institution: King's College
Created: Tue 20 Mar 2018
Classical social theory - 8 lectures by Alan Macfarlane c. 2004
1,529 total views
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
Digital Media - Some Reflections
30 total views
Talks by Alan Macfarlane about various digital projects from the 1970's to 2010, including the Earls Colne, Naga and Gurung projects and the use of digital media in teaching and publishing. Based on the draft of a book on 'Virtual Worlds' which it is planned to publish. The talks were filmed by...
Institution: King's College
Created: Sat 24 Feb 2018
Dilmaya Gurung
184 total views
A set of films related to the life and death of Dilmaya Gurung. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane in Nepal between 1969 and 2000.
Institution: King's College
Created: Mon 21 Apr 2014
Dilmaya Gurung - Interviews in 1992
136 total views
A set of eleven film interviews made by Alan Macfarlane of Dilmaya Gurung. They were filmed in the village of Thak in the Annapurna Himalayas in central Nepal in the Spring of 1992.
Institution: King's College
Created: Sat 22 Mar 2014
FAMILY ARCHIVES OF ALAN MACFARLANE
44 total views
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
Fieldwork with the Gurungs
725 total views
A series of films to show how an anthropologist does fieldwork. Based on research in the Nepal Himalayas among the Gurungs between 1968 and the present, by Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison
Institution: King's College
Created: Fri 25 Jul 2014
Films about King's College - its culture and its history
659 total views
Alan Macfarlane talks about various aspects of the College while walking around the College - questioned and filmed by Xu Bei in 2009.
Institution: King's College
Created: Tue 8 May 2018
Film series: 'The Day the World Took Off' - six films for the millennium, 2000
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A series of films made by Windfall Films for Channel Four to celebrate the millennium. Produced by David Dugan and devised by him with Alan Macfarlane. See also the background to the series on www.alanmacfarlane.com
Institution: King's College
Created: Mon 30 Nov 2015
Gurung films made from November 1969 to January 1970 in Nepal by Alan Macfarlane
225 total views
Films made on a silent, 8mm, camera without a zoom, during fieldwork north of Pokhara in 1969-1970 by Alan Macfarlane, during fieldwork among the Gurungs.
Institution: King's College
Created: Fri 27 Apr 2018
Gurung sound recordings in 1969 by Alan Macfarlane
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Tape recordings made during fieldwork in the Himalayas, in the village of Thak, north of Pokhara in Nepal, during 1969, by Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Thu 26 Apr 2018