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

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

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

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 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

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

A set of films taken in the central Himalayas by Alan Macfarlane between 1969 and 2010

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 22 Jan 2014

A set of films taken in the central Himalayas by Alan Macfarlane between 1969 and 2010

Institution: King's College

Created: Mon 10 Mar 2014

Films concerning the social worlds of the Gurungs of central Nepal, made by Alan Macfarlane between 1969 and the present.

Institution: King's College

Created: Tue 29 Apr 2014

The Thak Archive is a multimedia archive of ethnographic records collected from 1969 to the present by Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison in the Gurung village of Thak, located in central Nepal. Census data, as well as general economic and social data collected at regular intervals over the entire...

Institution: Faculty of Human, Social and Political Science

Created: Wed 29 Jun 2016

Lamas at death ritual. Thak, Kaski, Nepal, 1995.

Collection: The Thak Archive

Institution: Faculty of Human, Social and Political Science

Created: Sat 9 Jul 2016

Laymen play drums at death ritual.Thak, Kaski, Nepal, 1995.

Collection: The Thak Archive

Institution: Faculty of Human, Social and Political Science

Created: Sat 9 Jul 2016

Shamans play drums at death ritual. Thak, Kaski, Nepal, 1995.

Collection: The Thak Archive

Institution: Faculty of Human, Social and Political Science

Created: Sat 9 Jul 2016

Butter lamps at death ritual. Thak, Kaski, Nepal, 1995.

Collection: The Thak Archive

Institution: Faculty of Human, Social and Political Science

Created: Sat 9 Jul 2016

Offerings and possession at an annual village ritual. Thak, Kaski, Nepal 1995.

Collection: The Thak Archive

Institution: Faculty of Human, Social and Political Science

Created: Sat 9 Jul 2016

Gurung girls perform the gato ritual in the Gurung village of Yangjakot, Kaski, Nepal. 1990.

Collection: The Thak Archive

Institution: Faculty of Human, Social and Political Science

Created: Sat 9 Jul 2016

Dilmaya Gurung explains the planting process, speaking in the Tamu (Gurung) language.

Collection: The Thak Archive

Institution: Faculty of Human, Social and Political Science

Created: Sat 9 Jul 2016

Dilmaya Gurung explains the process of transplanting rice, speaking in the Tamu (Gurung) language.

Collection: The Thak Archive

Institution: Faculty of Human, Social and Political Science

Created: Sat 9 Jul 2016

Dilmaya Gurung explains the harvesting process, speaking in the Tamu (Gurung) language.

Collection: The Thak Archive

Institution: Faculty of Human, Social and Political Science

Created: Sat 9 Jul 2016

A film made by Anita Gurung and Dr Tek Gurung and others for 'Highlights Tourism' in Kathmandu Nepal and published in February 2021, featuring Professor Alan Macfarlane of...

Collection: Lectures and other materials

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 10 Feb 2021

A gathering of the Gurung kebje clan to enjoy a picnic together by Begnas Lake near Pokhara, filmed by Alan Macfarlane

Collection: The Social World of the Gurungs

Institution: King's College

Created: Tue 29 Apr 2014

A meeting of the Kebje clan of the Gurungs to enjoy a picnic outside Pokhara in Nepal, filmed by Alan Macfarlane

Collection: The Social World of the Gurungs

Institution: King's College

Created: Tue 29 Apr 2014

A meeting of the Kebje clan of the Gurungs to enjoy a picnic near Pokhara. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane..

Collection: The Social World of the Gurungs

Institution: King's College

Created: Tue 29 Apr 2014

A meeting of the Kebje clan of the Gurungs at a temple above Pokhara for a picnic. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane.

Collection: The Social World of the Gurungs

Institution: King's College

Created: Tue 29 Apr 2014

A gathering of the Kebje clan of the Gurungs, held in the Thak village club house in 2014. Filmed by various.

Collection: The Social World of the Gurungs

Institution: King's College

Created: Tue 29 Apr 2014

Filmed by Alan Macfarlane among the Gurungs

Collection: Fieldwork with the Gurungs

Institution: King's College

Created: Thu 14 Aug 2014

Filmed by Alan Macfarlane among the Gurungs

Collection: Fieldwork with the Gurungs

Institution: King's College

Created: Thu 14 Aug 2014

Filmed in a Gurung Village in the Himalayas by Alan Macfarlane

Collection: The Physical World of the Gurungs of Nepal

Institution: King's College

Created: Mon 31 Mar 2014

Part of a set of interviews of Dilmaya Gurung made in 1992 by Alan Macfarlane (filmed by Dilmaya)

Collection: Dilmaya Gurung - Interviews in 1992

Institution: King's College

Created: Fri 25 Apr 2014

Filmed by Sarah Harrison in the village of Thak

Collection: Fieldwork with the Gurungs

Institution: King's College

Created: Thu 14 Aug 2014