Alan Macfarlane by the River Cam near King’s College, Cambridge.
alan donald james macfarlane, born 1941
ANTHROPOLOGIST AND HISTORIAN
The anthropologist Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and edcuated at the Dragon School, Sedbergh School, Oxford and London Universities. He is the author of over twenty published books, including The Origins of English Individualism (1978) and Letters to Lily: On How the World Works (2005). He has worked in England, Nepal, Japan and China as both a historian and anthropologist. He was elected to the British Academy in 1986 and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. He has, with his wife Sarah Harrison, produced filmed interviews with more than 200 leading thinkers; these can be viewed via this page of his website.
Click below to view Alan Macfarlane’s remarkably detailed autobiographical life story, which comprises in total over 3000 pages:
Source: Links to the personal website of Prof. Alan Macfarlane, at www.alanmacfarlane.com.
Connected life stories:
His father: Macfarlane, Donald. Born 1916. (247 pages). Tea planter in northern India.
His mother: Macfarlane, Iris. Born 1922. (461 pages). Writer and wife of an Assam tea planter.