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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
Burma
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Films taken in or related to Burma (Myanmar) by Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison
Institution: King's College
Created: Sun 4 Jan 2015
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
China Visit 2005
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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
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
Dilmaya Gurung
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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
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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
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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
Fieldwork with the Gurungs
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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
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
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