LECTURES AND TALKS

NAMED GUEST LECTURES

‘Historical Anthropology’, Frazer Memorial Lecture 1974, part one [2013]

‘Historical Anthropology’, Frazer Memorial Lecture 1974, part two [2013]

‘Modes of Reproduction’, Malinowski Memorial Lecture 1978 [2013]

‘On Individualism’, Radcliffe-Brown Memorial Lecture 1992 [2013]

‘Illth and Wealth’, Marrett Memorial Lecture, Oxford, 1995 [2013]

‘The Riddle of the World’, Delhi School of Economics Golden Jubilee Lecture, 1999 [2013]

‘F.W. Maitland and the Making of the Modern World’, Maitland Memorial Lecture, Cambridge 2000 [2013]

‘Fukuzawa Yukichi and Maruyama Masao – Two Visions of Japan’, Maruyama Memorial Lecture (1), Berkeley, California, 2005 [2013]

‘Fukuzawa and Maruyama – How to Understand Japan’, Maruyama Memorial Lecture (2), Berkeley, California, 2005 [2013]

'Anthropology, Empire and Modernity', The Huxley Memorial Lecture 2012

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY LECTURES

INTRODUCTORY

 [All these lectures currently come off Dspace, and include reading lists etc. It is planned to replace these with the more versatile version on the Streaming Media Service in the next few months, and to add further series, as indicated below.]

What is Social Anthropology? A brief introduction. 2008

Some Technical Terms used by Anthropologists [TEXT]

Introduction to Social Anthropology – an overview. 4 films in 1988

Introduction to Kinship and Marriage [See Films* - download the full films]

Politics and Economic Life [Films* - download the full films]

Strategies of Survival [Films* - download the full films]

Introduction to Religion and Ritual given by Dr Stephen Hugh-Jones [Films* -download the full films]

Symbols, Language and Communication given by Dr Mark Turin [Films* -download the full films]

MORE ADVANCED LECTURES FOR UNDERGRADUATES

Law, Justice and Violence [See 'Films']

Lectures on Special Topics in Legal Anthropology [Films* -download the full films]

Classical Social Theorists [Films* - download the full films]

Changing Paradigms in the Social Sciences [diagram]

Cosmologies of Capitalism Fifteen lectures on the major paradigms in the social sciences over the last 500 years

[Lectures to be filmed and uploaded, in April-May 2013 :Analysis of Communities: four lectures given in 1975-7. Technology and Change: four lectures given in 2002. Inequality: four lectures given in 1993.  Causes and Consequences of Population: four lectures in 1992.  Visual Anthropology: four lectures in 1992: Capitalism: two lecture in 2002]

METHODOLOGY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (FOR POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH)

'53 minute video on doing fieldwork' [Film* - download the full film]

'Reflections on fieldwork among the Gurungs of Nepal' [Film* - download the full film]

‘How to write – beyond the essay. Some reflections for those writing a thesis or book’, interview with a graduate student in Cambridge, 2008

‘Pathways of Creativity: Some Reflections’, interview and film by Alex Skinner 2009

'Some Advice on Life and Work', After dinner talk, SPS Society, Cambridge, 2009

'On Crossing Boundaries', Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Cambridge 2009

‘Ethics for Social Anthropological Fieldwork’, Seminar in Cambridge for Ph.D. students, 2006

OCCASIONAL LECTURES

[This is a selection, in date of delivering]

‘On Enchantment’, Garrod Lecture, Cambridge 2008

'China and the West', Cambridge China Forum, 2009 [Film* - download the full film]

‘Are there Laws in History and Anthropology’, Central European University, Budapest, 2009 (Launch of the Hungarian edition of 'Letters to Lily')

‘Anthropology, history and memory’, Lecture at Peking University 2012.

‘China and Japan: a critical relationship’, China Society, University of Cambridge, 2006 [2013]

‘De Tocqueville in Japan’, Jowett Society, Oxford, 1995 [2013]

‘Digital Himalaya: Nepal in Context’, British Nepal Association Annual Lecture, 2003 [2013]

‘Fernand Braudel and Global History’, Institute of Historical Research, London, 1996 [2013]

‘Glass and its effects on science and art’, lecture to students in 2002 [2013]

‘Industrial Capitalism – some reflections on its origins’, Worcester College, Oxford, history society 1994 [2013]

‘Japan in an English Mirror’, lecture to students in Cambridge, 1994 [2013]

‘Japan through the looking glass’, Oxford University Asia-Pacific Society 2006 [2013]

‘Japan’s resilience: a year after the tsunami’, talk in Cambridge to commemorate the first anniversary, 2012 [2013]

‘Kurosawa’s film “Rashomon”’, Cinema Seminar, Cambridge 2005 [2013]

‘Laws in History and Anthropology’, Cornell University 2004

‘Letters to Lily on How the World Works: an introduction’, to Wuhan no 11 Middle School, China, 2003

‘Love and Capitalism’, part one, University of Virginia, 1986 [2013]

‘Love and Capitalism’, part two, University of Virginia, 1986 [2013]

‘Peasant and Capitalist Morality’, Talk to history society, 1991 [2013]

‘Reflections on the “Great Divergence”’ between China and the West: Reliable Knowledge’, Lecture in Beijing, 2002 [2013]

‘Socialism and Imagined Empires’, Max Planck Institute, Halle, 2010

‘The Empire of Tea’, talk at Peking University in 2003 [2013]

‘The future of social change – tendencies and traps’, British Telecom Conference 2006 [2013]

‘The idea of universities in the East and West’, Christian Women’s University, Tokyo 2009

‘The Making of the Modern World’, Grimsby Historical Association, 2002 [2013]

‘The Peculiarity of the English’, Anglo-Polish Conference, Warsaw 2011 [2013]

‘Traps and Tendencies’, Conference on Glass at King’s College, Cambridge, 2003 [2013]

‘What makes the University of Cambridge special?’ Anniversary talk at Cambridge Folk Museum, 2009 [2013]

‘Why were the English and Japanese so healthy? The role of tea.’ Talk at the Cambridge Group for Population 1995 [2013]

‘Studying English witchcraft; what I have learnt’, talk originally given to Dulwich College, London in 2013, and filmed in 2013

‘The development of reliable knowledge’, talk in 1999 with Gerry Martin, filmed in 2013

SPECIAL SERIES

'The Invention of the Modern World' – Seventeen lectures, being the Wang Gouwei Lectures, Tsinghua Academy of Chinese Learning, Tsinghua University, Beijing. 2011 [See also the full version of these lectures published in The Fortnightly Review under the same title]

Letters to Lily: how to understand the world. 30 talks filmed in 2012 based on the book ‘Letters to Lily’(2005)