Contents of Alan Macfarlane's website

This is an incomplete list. Use the links at the top of the page to see the full list of subjects.

Life

Outlines and contexts

• Outline chronology of life
• Full chronology (curriculum vitae)
• Interviews
• Recognition and Awards
• Family ancestors of Alan Macfarlane

Themes

• Teaching, lecturing and supervising
  • major lecture series
• Life and Research Methods
• 'Travels through Anthropology-Land'
• 'Encounters on the Journey': reflections after thirty years
• Administration
• Directing and organizing research projects
• Particularly important people
  • Iris Macfarlane
  • Andrew Morgan
  • Sarah Harrison
  • Keith Thomas
  • Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf
  • Peter Laslett
  • Jack Goody
  • Ernest Gellner
  • Gerry Martin
• Particularly important places
  • England in general
  • the Nepal Himalayas and the Gurungs
  • Japan - Hokkaido, Tokyo and Kyoto

Publications

Themes

• Witchcraft, magic and the Inquisition
  • WITCHCRAFT IN TUDOR AND STUART ENGLAND
  • 'Witchcraft   in  Tudor  and  Stuart  England'
  • 'Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart Essex'
  • 'A Tudor anthropologist: George Gifford's Discourse and Dialogue'
  • 'The  Root  of All Evil'
  • 'The  Inquisition  in  Early Modern Europe'
  • Review of Keith Thomas 'Religion and the Decline of Magic'
  • 'Civility and the Decline of Magic'
  • 'The sociological Study of Past Societies with special reference to Witchcraft in Essex'
  • Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England; A regional and comparative study
  • Films
• Family, kinship and marriage
  • The diary of Ralph Josselin 1616-1683
  • The Family Life of Ralph Josselin: An essay in historical anthropology
  • Illegitimacy and illegitimates in English history
  • Marriage and Love in England; Modes of Reproduction
  • Love and Capitalism
  • Mating patterns - an historical perspective
• Population, resources and disease
  • Resources and Population; A Study of the Gurungs of Nepal
  • Modes of Reproduction (Malinowski Lecture for 1978)
  • Modes of Reproduction
  • Social Anthropology and Population
  • 'Death and the Demographic Transition'
  • 'Demographic Structures and Cultural Regions in Europe'
  • The Savage Wars of Peace; England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap
  • 'Introduction to Savage Wars of Peace'
  • 'Epilogue to Savage Wars of Peace'
  • 'The Malthusian Trap'
  • 'Preface to Resources and Population'
    • Long version of the book
    • "Autobiography" of the book
    • Reviews
    • Films
• Individualism, capitalism and modernity
  • The Origins of English Individualism: The family, property and social transition
  • Some Psychological Consequences of English Individualism
  • The Group and the Individual in History
  • Introduction to The Origins of English Individualism
  • Preface to the Hungarian edition of The Origins of English Individualism
  • The myth of peasantry; family and economy in a northern parish
  • The Cradle of Capitalism: The Case of England
  • The Culture of Capitalism
  • The Riddle of the Modern World
  • On  Individualism
  • 'The mystery of property: inheritance and industrialization in England and Japan'
  • The Making of the Modern World: the views from the West and East
  • Appendix : A Note on the Nature of Capitalism
  • 'Freedom and Economic Growth'
  • The Cradle of Capitalism: The Case of England
  • Individualism
  • Some Reflections on the Origins of Industrial Capitalism in a Comparative Perspective
  • The Origins of English Individualism: Some Surprises
  • 'The Making of the Modern World'
  • 'Reflection on Peasant and Capitalist Morality'
  • 'Some Thoughts on the Nature of Early Modern Society'
  • 'Illth and Wealth'
  • 'Wealth and the Decline of Illth'
  • 'Freedom and economic growth'
  • 'Individualism Reconsidered'
• Law
  • The Justice and the Mare's Ale: Law and disorder in seventeenth-century England
  • 'What makes Law Effective?'
• Technology and the material world
  • The Glass Bathyscaphe; How Glass Changed the World
  • Green Gold; The Empire of Tea
  • Technological Evolution and Involution; A Preliminary Comparison of Europe and Japan
  • The World of Glass
• General
  • LETTERS TO LILY: On how the world works
  • 'Background thoughts on writing "Letters"
• Short reviews of other authors

Theories and methods

• Encounters with historians and anthropologists
  • Dor Bahadur Bista
    • 'Fatalism and Development in Nepal'
  • Marc Bloch
    • 'Marc Bloch and the transformation to modernity'
  • Fernand Braudel
    • 'Fernand Braudel and Global History'
    • 'A few First Thoughts about Fernand Braudel and Norman Jacobs'
  • Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf
    • Personal memories and influence of Haimendorf
    • 'Obituary of Professor Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, 1909-1995'
    • 'Himalayan Traders: Life in Highland Nepal'
    • 'Contributions to the Anthropology of Nepal'
    • 'Life Among the Indian Tribes'
    • The Naga Videodisc Project
    • Digital Himalaya
  • Edward Freeman
    • The work of Edward Freeman
  • Christopher Hill
    • The work of Christopher Hill
  • Ishiguro
    • Thoughts on Japan and England after reading 'Remains of the Day'
  • Peter Laslett
  • F.W. Maitland
  • J.G.A. Pocock
    • 'Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law'
  • Lawrence Stone
    • 'The Family, Sex and Marriage in England'
  • William Stubbs
    • The work of William Stubbs
  • Keith Thomas
    • A personal memoir of my D.Phil supervisor and his influence
    • 'Religion and the Decline of Magic'
    • 'Man and the Natural World'
    • 'Civility and the Decline of Magic'
  • G.M. Trevelyan
    • 'G.M.Trevelyan and the discovery of the the capitalist revolution'
  • E.A. Wrigley
    • 'E.A.Wrigley and the Riddle of the World'
• Encounters with social theorists
  • Andre Beteille
    • 'André Béteille and Alexis de Tocqueville'
  • Louis Dumont
    • 'Louis Dumont and the Origins of Individualism',
  • Emile Durkheim
    • 'Maitland and Durkheim'
    • 'Emile Durkheim and the Riddle of the Modern World'
  • Yukichi Fukuzawa
    • Preface to a study of Yukichi Fukuzawa
    • Yukichi Fukuzawa and the Making of the Modern World
    • Early Experience and Character
    • Travels and Comparisons
    • The Making of a New Japan
    • The Essence of the Modern World
    • Liberty, Equality and Human Relations
    • How the Modern World was Made (Maitland and Fukuzawa)
    • Bibliography of 'Making of the Modern World'
  • Alfred Gell
    • 'Obituary'
  • Ernest Gellner
    • 'Ernest Gellner and the Escape to Modernity'
    • 'The Conditions of Liberty'
    • Obituary of Ernest Gellner
    • 'Ernest Gellner and the Conditions of the Exit'
    • Lecture 8. Ernest Gellner (1925-1995) [film]
    • Brief Memories of Ernest Gellner
  • David Hume
    • 'David Hume and the political economy of agrarian civilization'
    • 'Alexander Pope, David Hume and the Mystery of Modernity'
  • Norman Jacobs
    • 'The Origins of Capitalism in Japan, China and the West: The Work of Norman Jacobs'
    • 'A few First Thoughts about Fernand Braudel and Norman Jacobs'
  • Sir Henry Maine
    • 'Sir Henry James Sumner Maine'
    • 'Some contributions of Sir Henry Maine to history and anthropology'
    • 'The Legacy of Sir Henry Maine'
  • F.W. Maitland
    • 'F.W.Maitland'
    • 'F.W. Maitland and the Making of the Modern World' [eBook]
    • Preface to a study of F.W.Maitland
    • F.W.Maitland and the Making of the Modern World
    • The Legacy of Sir Henry Maine
    • Life, Work and Methods
    • Power and Property
    • Social Relations
    • The Divergence of Legal Systems
    • Fellowship and Trust
    • Maitland and Durkheim
    • Maitland Assessed
    • Maitland and Fukuzawa
    • Extra Lecture - F.W. Maitland (1850-1906) [film]
  • Thomas Malthus
    • Resources and Population: A Study of the Gurungs of Central Nepal (Chapter 16)
    • Marriage and Love in England (Chapters 1-3, 14)
    • 'The Malthusian Trap'
  • Karl Marx
    • 'Karl Marx and the Origins of Capitalism'
  • Baron de Montesquieu
    • Baron de Montesquieu's Life and Vision
    • Liberty and Despotism
    • The Defence of Liberty
  • Adam Smith
    • Adam Smith's Life and Vision
    • Growth and Stasis
    • Of Wealth and Liberty
    • From Predation to Production
  • Alexis de Tocqueville
    • Alexis de Tocqueville's Life and Vision
    • 'America' as a Thought Experiment
    • How the Modern World Emerged
    • Liberty, Wealth and Equality
  • Max Weber
    • 'Max Weber and the Origins of Capitalism
• Theoretical methodology
  • Individualism Reconsidered, or the Craft of the Historian
  • Scholarly Standards; Judgment, Accuracy and Honesty
  • History, Anthropology and the Study of Communities
  • Notes on General Theory and Particular Cases
  • 'Historical Anthropology'
  • Imaginative Leaps
  • 'Anthropology and History'
  • Socio-economic revolution in England and the origin of the modern world
  • History and Anthropology
  • To Contrast and Compare
  • 'Structural and Functional Approaches
  • 'Only Connect - Some thoughts on Discovery and Creativity'
  • 'The Comparative Method; Preliminary Thoughts'
• Historical records and computers
  • Reconstructing Historical Communities
  • A Guide to English Historical Records
  • Reconstructing Historical Communities by Computer
  • 'Computer input of historical records for multi-source record linkage'
  • 'The Actual and Potential Role of Microforms in British Historical Research'
  • 'The computer revolution and local history'
  • The Cambridge Database System
  • Cambridge Database System; CDS 2000
• Multimedia and film
  • The Cambridge Experimental Videodisc Project
  • 'The Cambridge Experimental Videodisc Project'
  • 'The Principles Used in Selecting, Editing and Transferring Materials for an Archival Videodisc'
  • The Potentials of Videodisc in Visual Anthropology; Some Examples
  • 'The Cambridge Experimental Videodisc Project
  • 'Forty years work with computers and visual media'
  • 'Digital Orient: An Experiment'
  • 'The Nagas: An Experiment in Multimedia'
  • 'Anthropological and other "Ancestors": Notes on Setting up a Visual Archive'

Areas

• Japan and the Japanese
  • On Individualism
  • Technological Evolution and Involution; A Preliminary Comparison of Europe and Japan
  • 'De Tocqueville in Japan, the nature of Japanese society and culture'
  • Japan and the West
  • 'Japan' in an English Mirror
  • 'Law   and  custom  in  Japan:  some  comparative   reflections'
  • 'Work  and  Culture: Some Comparisons of England and  Japan'
  • 'The mystery of property: inheritance and industrialization in England and Japan'
  • 'De Tocqueville in Japan'
• Nepal and the Gurungs
  • The Gurungs
  • 'Death, Disease and Curing in a Himalayan Village'
  • A Guide to the Gurungs
  • 'Fatalism and Development in Nepal'
  • Identity and Change Among the Gurungs (Tamu-mai) of Central Nepal
  • Himalayan Diary; where have all the witches gone?
  • Sliding Down Hill: Social Change in a Gurung Village
  • Digital Himalaya: Nepal in Context
• China and Korea
  • 'Reflections on the Great Divergence: Reliable Knowledge of the World'
  • 'Don's Diary'
  • 'Reflections on the Great Divergence: Demographic and Social Structure'
• England and the English

Lectures

• Law, Justice and Violence [Film]
• Introduction to Kinship and Marriage [Film]
• '53 minute video on doing fieldwork' [Film]
• 'Reflections on fieldwork among the Gurungs of Nepal' [Film]
• 'Reflections on using film in fieldwork' [Film]
• Classical Social Theorists [Films]
• Talks on Economic Anthropology [Films]
• What is Social Anthropology? [Film]
• Some Technical Terms used by Anthropologists
• Changing Paradigms in the Social Sciences
• Lecture on the use of personal records for history and anthropology [Film]
• Talk on the methods of charting social relationships [Film]
• Politics and Economic life [Films]
• Introduction to Religion and Ritual lectures given by Stephen Hugh-Jones [Films]
• Symbols, Language and Communication lectures given by Mark Turin [Films]
• Further materials for Cambridge Undergraduates
• Ethics for Anthropologists [Films]
• An Informal Introduction to Cambridge and King's College [Films]
• A Visit to Earls Colne, Essex [Films]
• 'Why is there Inequality?' - Public Lecture [Films]

Projects

Mainly anthropological

• Cambridge experimental videodisc project
  • The Nagas
• Social change in central Nepal
• Anthropological ancestors
• Digital Himalaya
• Digital Orient

Mainly Historical

• Earls Colne Project
• Global History ['The Day the World Took Off']
• Achievement project
• Working with Iris Macfarlane
• Family Archives
• Working with Gerry Martin

Cross-disciplinary

• Database of quotations and ideas
• Books and book-collecting