Born 20 December
1941 in Shillong, India
Nationality British
Address Department
of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RF, England.
(0223-334591; e-mail am12@cam.ac.uk)
Education Dragon
School, Oxford; Sedbergh School, Yorkshire. Read Modern History at Worcester
College, Oxford, 1960-3, B.A., M.A. D.Phil. in Modern History at Oxford,
1963-7, on 'Witchcraft prosecutions in Essex, 156O-168O: a sociological
analysis'. M.Phil. in Anthropology at the London School of Economics,
1966-8, on 'The regulation of marital and sexual relationships in 17th
century England'. Ph.D. in Anthropology at the School of Oriental and
African Studies, London, on 'Population and resources in central Nepal',
1968-1972.
Fieldwork
Nepal:
Over thirty months anthropological fieldwork in central Nepal: 1968-1970;
December 1986; October-December 1987; December, l988; January-March
1990; March-April 1991; Apr-May 1992; March-Apr 1993; Oct-December 1994,
Nov-Dec. 1995; March-April 1996; March-April 1997; March-April 1998;
October 1999; December 2000; November 2001
Japan and China: six
visits to Japan, of between three months and three weeks (1990,
1993, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2006), tavelling and filming and lecturing.
Five visits to China in 1996, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, travelling
very widely indeed,
filming
and lecturing and exploring.
Employment Senior
Research Fellow in History, King's College, Cambridge, 1971-4. University
Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Cambridge, 1975-1981. Reader in Historical
Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 1981-1991. Professor of Anthropological
Science, University of Cambridge (Personal Chair), 1991 on. Fellow,
King's College, Cambridge, 1981 on.
Administrative
College: Various
College Committees, King's College,Cambridge (Fellowships, Research
Managers, Convenor (Director) of Research Centre (twice), Library Planning,
Estates (Finance), Library, Gardening, Finance; Director of Studies
in Anthropology, 2002-3
Departmental:
Secretary of Department of Social Anthropology, 1982-3, Easter 1995,
Lent & Summer 1999, Lent and Easter 2006. Acting Head of the Department
of Social Anthropology, December 1979 to April 1980, October l988 to
September
l989; October
1991 to March 1992, July 1991 to March 1992; October 1992 to September
1993. Chair of the Mongolian and Inner Asian Studdies Unit, c.1995-2003.
Faculty: Secretary
of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, 1975-7; Member
of the Museum Committee of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
1991-3, Chair, 2003-5. Chairman of Library Committee, Haddon Library,
1982-1984, 1996-7. Chairman, Williamson Fund Committee, 1988 on. Member
of Appointments Committee of Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology,
1985-6 and later. Chairman, Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology,
1984-1986, Easter 1987, Michaelmas 1989. Member of Council of the School
of Humanities and Social Sciences 1984-86, Easter 1987, Michaelmas 1991.
Chairman of the Degree Committee, 1998-1999. Chair of Part I Committee,
2001-2.
National: Member
of the Social Anthropology Committee of the Social Science Research
Council, 1978-80, Vice-Chairman of Committee 1980-1. Member of Research
Grants Board, Economic and Social Research Council,1988-1989; Member
of the Research Resources Advisory Group, Economic and Social Research
Council, 1991-5; Member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Advisory
Board of the British Library, 1997-2001. Honorary Vice President of
the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2003 onwards.
External Examiner:
School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1983-1985. University
of Wales (Lampeter), 1996/7 - 2000.
Learned societies
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society,
Royal Anthropological Institute (Honorary Vice President 2002-5),
Association of Social Anthropologists; Fellow of the British Academy
(1986); Fellow of Academia Europaea (199O); International Who's Who
(1989 on).
Boards and Trusts
Editorial board of Social History, 1976-8; Editorial Board of British
Records Society, 1976-8; Board of Social History Society 1977
to 1990;
Trustee of Radcliffe-Brown Memorial Fund, 1980 - 1986; member of Faculty
Board of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1975 onwards ; Board of
Social
and Political Sciences Committee 1975-1980, 2001-4; Board of Management
of Audio Visual Aids Unit, 1984-1986; Editorial Board, BBC 'Domesday'
Videodisc Project,1985-1987; Trustee of the Tom Harrison Mass Observation
Archive, University of Sussex, 1991 - 1998. Member of Commission
of Documentary Film of China, 2005
Research organiser
Director, project on
computers and history, King's College, Cambridge, Research Centre, 1973-6.
Co-director, research
project on computers and history, Social Science Research Council, 1974-82.
National convener, two
year seminar on history and anthropology, sponsored by the Social Science
Research Council, 1975-7.
Director, project on
the records of the Portuguese Inquisition, funded by King's College
Research Centre and the Gulbenkian Foundation, 1982 to 1987.
Director of Rivers Video
Project, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge, 1983 on (with
some funding from the Renaissance Trust).
Adviser to BBC 'Timewatch'
series. Contributor to BBC television series (6 part) on British Archives
(2000). Principal contributor, with numerous appearances, to six one
hour Channel 4 television series programmes on the history and anthropology
of the world (broadcast, June, 2000 as 'The Day the World Took Off').
Director of the 'Cambridge
Experimental Videodisc Project' on the Nagas of Assam, 1985-1992 (funded
by Nuffield, Leverhulme, and Economic & Social Research Council).
Director of project on
'Social and Economic Change in the Central Himalayas', 199O-1993 (funded
by the Economic and Social Research Council).
Director of project on
modern information technologies and their application, 1990 to present
(funded by the Renaissance Trust).
Research Seminar on Asian
and European Technologies, funded by Renaissance Trust and King's College
Research Centre, 1996-1998. Director of project to put an English village
on the Internet, funded by Renaissance Trust and King's College Research
Centre, 1996-2000.
Co-director of project
on 'Digital Himalaya', funded by Royal Anthropological Institute fund
and Renaissance Trust, 2000 on
Co-director of 'Digital Orient' project, 2003 on, with funding from
the Renaaissance Trust.
Director of project on the minorities of China, 2003 onwards, funded
by the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research
Distinguished lectures
and honours Frazer Memorial Lecture, University of Liverpool,
1974; Burrows Lecture, University of Essex, 1977; Malinowski Memorial
Lecture,
London School of Economics, 1978; Radcliffe-Brown Memorial Lecture
(British
Academy), 1993; Marrett Lecture, Oxford, 1995; Rivers Memorial Medal
for Anthropological Fieldwork (1984), Royal Anthropological Institute;
William J. Goode medal of the American Sociological Association 1987;
first British Council Distinguished Visiting Lecturer to Japan, invited
by the University of Hokkaido July 1990; invited by the Japanese Ministry
of Education to lecture in Japan, July, 1993; visiting Professor invited
by the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tokyo, Japan,
September-December 1997; Guest lecture, Speaking Hall, Keio University,
Japan, April 1999; Golden Jubilee Lecture, Delhi School of Economics,
Sept. 199; lecture at National Library, Beijing 2002; Annual Lecture
at British Nepal Association 2003; Maruyama Masao visiting lectures
at the University of Berkeley at California; Sir Li Ka Sheng distinguished
Cambridge visititing scholar with lectures at Yunnan, Chengdu,
Shantou and Hong Kong (Chinese) universities.
Museum related
Involved in planning and mounting the special 'Naga' exhibition, Cambridge
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Andrews Gallery, 1990-2.
Lectures, seminar
papers Lectures in the History Faculty and Archaeology and Anthropology
Faculty in Cambridge. In the latter, lectures at Part I, Prelim and
Part II levels in the fields of: introductions to social anthropology,
kinship and marriage, politics, law, economics, demography, visual anthropology,
history of technology, research methods etc. Lectures at seminars and
conferences at many British Universities, Scandinavia, Portugal, the
States, Japan, India, China etc.
Undergraduate teaching
Taught approximately two hundred and twenty undergraduates by personal
supervision in almost all the fields of social anthropology (and examined
in almost all of the fields of anthropology). Supervision in English
social history of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.
Graduate teaching
Supervised some sixty taught M.Phil (previously Certificate) students
and approximately fifty Ph.D. students. Of the latter, five are currently
in progress, the rest have all completed their courses and received
a degree (two received a B.Litt rather than a Ph.D.).
Reviewing Reviewed
for a wide range of journals, historical and anthropological and some
national papers (including T.L.S., T.H.E.S. and London Review of Books).
PUBLICATIONS
(Monographs are in upper
case. A paperback edition of a book that first appeared in hardback,
is indicated by PB. Foreign languages into which the book has been translated
are indicated. Shorter reviews of under one thousand words have not
been included.)
1968
(1) 'Population Crisis:
Anthropology's Failure', New Society, 10 October, 1968.
197O
(1) 'Witchcraft', in
History of the English Speaking Peoples (Purnell Press), 197O
(2) WITCHCRAFT IN
TUDOR AND STUART ENGLAND (Routledge) (PB,1970,1990)
(3) THE FAMILY LIFE
OF RALPH JOSSELIN: AN ESSAY IN HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (Cambridge
Univ. Press). (PB,1977)
(4) 'Witchcraft in Tudor
and Stuart England', in Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations,
ed. M. Douglas (A.S.A. Publications)
1973
(1) 'Imaginative Leaps',
Times Educational Supplement, January, 1973.
(2) Review of Marc Bloch,
The Royal Touch. 1973, Times Educational Supplement.
1974
(1) 'Kirkby Lonsdale
and the study of pre-industrial communities', Lancaster University
Bulletin of the Regional Studies Centre.
(2) Review of H.C. Midelfort,
'Witch Hunting in Southwestern Germany'. Journal of Social History
(3) Review of Mervyn
James, 'Family, Lineage & Civil Society', Times Literary Supplement
1975
(1) Review of Norman
Cohn 'Europe's Inner Demons'. Times Educational Supplement
(2) Review of Margaret
Spufford, Contrasting Communities. Times Educational Supplement
1976
(1) RESOURCES AND
POPULATION: A STUDY OF THE GURUNGS OF NEPAL (Cambridge Univ. Press).
(2) THE DIARY OF RALPH
JOSSELIN, Edited for the British Academy (Oxford Univ. Press). (PB,
1991).
(3) Review of Leslie
Clarkson, 'Death, Disease and Famine'. Literature and History.
1977
(1) RECONSTRUCTING
HISTORICAL COMMUNITIES with Charles Jardine and Sarah Harrison.
(Cambridge Univ. Press).
(2) 'History, anthropology
and the study of communities', Social History, 5.
(3) 'Witchcraft in Tudor
and Stuart Essex', in Crime in England 1550-1800, ed. J.S. Cockburn
(Methuen).
(4) 'Historical Anthropology',
in Cambridge Anthropology no.3.
(5) 'A Tudor anthropologist:
George Gifford's Discourse and Dialogue' in The Damned Art: Essays
in the Literature of Witchcraft, ed. S. Anglo (Routledge)
(6) Review of Elizabeth
Bourcier, 'The Diary of Sir Simonds d'Ewes'. Etudes Anglaises
1978
(1) 'The Peasantry in
England before the industrial revolution. A mythical model?, in Social
Organization and Settlement, ed. D. Green et. al. (B.A.R.)
(2) 'Some psychological
consequences of English individualism, 1400-1700', Society for the
Social History of Medicine, Bulletin 22.
(3) 'Modes of Reproduction',
Journal of Development Studies, 14 no.4 (reprinted in G. Hawthorn
(ed.),Population and Development (Cass)
(4) 'The Origins of English
Individualism: Some Surprises' Theory and Society. Vol.6, no.2.
(5) THE ORIGINS OF
ENGLISH INDIVIDUALISM: THE FAMILY, PROPERTY AND SOCIAL TRANSITION
(Blackwells and Cambridge Univ. Press) (PB,1978). Portuguese, Japanese.
1979
(1) 'Social anthropology
and Population', RAIN, February
(2) 'Reconstructing Historical
Communities by Computer', Current Anthropology, December (with
others).
(3) 'Lawrence Stone's
"The Family, Sex and Marriage in England"', History and Theory,
January.
(4) 'Computer input of
historical records for multi-source record linkage',Proceedings of
the Seventh International Economic History Conference (with C.Jardine).
(5) Review of Paul Boyer
and Stephen Nissenbaum (Eds), The Salem Witchcraft Papers.
(6) Review of Charles
Phythian-Adams, Desolation of a City'. Urban History Yearbook
(7) Review of G.R.Quaife,
'Wanton Wenches and Wayward Wives'. Journal of Social History
198O
(1) 'Early English Assize
Records' (Review Essay), American Journal of Legal History, vol.XXIV
(2) 'Illegitimacy and
illegitimates in English history', in Bastardy and its Comparative
History, ed. P.Laslett and others (Arnold).
(3) 'The informal social
control of marriage in seventeenth century England' in Loving, Parenting
and Dying: The Family Circle in England and America, ed. V.C.Fox
and M.H. Quitt.
(4) The Records of
an English Village: Church Records ed. A. Macfarlane and others.
(Chadwyck-Healey microfiche)
(5) Review of Emmanuel
Le Roy Ladurie, 'Carnival in Romans'. Journal of Modern History,
vol.52, no.3.
(6) Review of Jean Cuisenier
(Ed), Europe as a Cultural Area, Cambridge Anthropology
1981
(1) THE JUSTICE AND
THE MARE'S ALE: JUSTICE AND ORDER IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND (Blackwell
and Cambridge U.P.) (PB, 1981)
(2) The Records of
an English Village: State Records ed. Alan Macfarlane and others.(Chadwyck-Healey
Microfiche)
(3) The Records of
an English Village: Estate Records ed. A. Macfarlane and others.
(Chadwyck-Healey Microfiche)
(4) 'Demographic structures
and cultural regions in Europe' Cambridge Anthropology.
(5) 'Death, Disease and
Curing in a Himalayan Village', in Asian Societies in Anthropological
Perspective, ed. C. von Furer-Haimendorf (Delhi, 1981).
(6) 'Death and the Demographic
Transition: a note on English evidence on death 1500-1750' in S.C. Humphreys
and Helen King (eds.), Mortality and Immortality: the anthropology
and archaeology of death (Academic Press)
(7) 'Notes on general
theory and particular cases', Groniek: gronings historisch fijdschrift,
No.76.
(8) Review of Keith Thomas,
'Religion and the Decline of Magic'. History Today
1982
(1) 'Inquisition and
Anthropology', Temenos, Studies in Comparative Religion, vol.18.
1983
(1) 'The Actual and Potential
Role of Microforms in British Historical Research' in Microform Review
vol.12, no.2. Spring 1983
(2) 'Death in Cumbria':
review article of Keith Thomas, 'Man and the Natural World' in London
Review of Books, vol.5, no.9, May.
(3) A GUIDE TO ENGLISH
HISTORICAL RECORDS (Cambridge Univ. Press)
(4) 'Social Drinking'
review article of P.Clark, 'The English Alehouse', Times Higher Educ.
Supp. Nov.
(5) 'Difficult Women',
review of John Demos 'Entertaining Satan', Times Literary Supplement.,13
May
1984
(1) Editor and introduction
to C. Larner, Witchcraft and Religion (Blackwell)
(2) 'A Individualidade
dos Ingleses', Ler Historia, no.3.
(3) 'The myth of peasantry;
family and economy in a northern parish' in Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle
(ed.) Richard Smith
1985
(1) 'The Root of All
Evil' in The Anthropology of Evil, ed. David Parkin (Blackwell)
(2) 'The poor, the poor',
review of two eighteenth century English diaries (Holland and Turner),
Spectator, 2.3.85
1986
(1) MARRIAGE AND LOVE
IN ENGLAND; MODES OF REPRODUCTION 1300-184O (Blackwell) (PB,1986)
Portuguese
(2) 'Crime and the Courts
in England 166O-1800'; review article in London Review of Books,
vol.8, no.13.
(3) 'British Customs
and Traditions in the 1980s', overview essay for the B.B.C. Domesday
Disc.
(4) 'Socio-economic revolution
in England and the origin of the modern world' in Revolution in History,
eds. Roy Porter and M.Teich (Cambridge, 1986).
(5) Review of J.M. Beattie,
Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800. London Review of Books.
(6) Review of Joseph
Lynch, 'Godparents and Kinship'. Journal of Ecclesiastical History
1987
(1) 'The Cambridge Experimental
Videodisc Project' in Bulletin of Information in Computing and Anthropology
(February).
(2) THE CULTURE OF
CAPITALISM (Blackwell) (PB,1987) Portuguese
(3) 'Love and Capitalism',
Cambridge Anthropology
1988
(1) 'The Cradle of Capitalism'
in Jean Baechler et al., eds), Europe and the Rise of Capitalism(Blackwell)
2) 'The Naga Videodisc'
(Cambridge Interactive, 1988): (ten thousand visual images, a thousand
moving sequences of film and sound, on an optical disc).
(3) 'Mating patterns
- an historical perspective' in Human Mating Patterns, eds. C.
G. N. Mascie-Taylor and A.J. Boyce (Cambridge)
(4) 'Anthropology and
History' in The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians ed.John Cannon
et. al. (Blackwell)
(5) 'The Inquisition
in Early Modern Europe'; (review essay) in Temenos, vol. 24
(6) 'The Naga Videodisc
Manual', Cambridge Interactive.
1989
(1) 'Some background
notes on Gurung identity in a period of rapid change', Kailash, A
Journal of Himalayan Studies, xv, no. 3-4.
(2) THE CAMBRIDGE
DATABASE SYSTEM USER MANUAL (Cambridge Multimedia).
(3) 'The Principles Used
in Selecting, Editing and Transferring Materials for an Archival Videodisc',
Journal of Educational Television, vol.15, no.3.
(4) 'The Naga Text Database',
Cambridge Multimedia. (Five thousand pages of transcribed and edited
documents, published on computer disc). With Sarah Harrison and J.Jacobs.
199O
(1) 'Fatalism and Development
in Nepal', London Review Books, May
(2) 'The Cambridge Experimental
Videodisc Project', Anthropology Today, vol.6, no.1.
(3) THE NAGAS, HILL
PEOPLES OF NORTH EAST INDIA: SOCIETY AND THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER
(Thames and Hudson) with J.Jacobs, S.Harrison & A.Herle. (PB,1990)
German.
(4) 'Fatalism and Development
in Nepal', Cambridge Anthropology, vol.14, no.1, 1990.
(5) 'BBC Domesday: The
social construction of Britain on Videodisc,, Society for Visual
Anthropology Review, vol.6, no.2.
(6) GUIDE TO THE GURUNGS
with Indrabahadur Gurung (Ratna Pustak Bhandar, Kathmandu)
1991
(1) 'The Potentials of
Videodisc in Visual Anthropology; Some Examples', Commission for
Visual Anthropology Review.
(2) THE CAMBRIDGE
DATABASE SYSTEM (INTERACTIVE) USER MANUAL with Martin Porter and
Michael Bryant. (Rivers Video Project), 163 pp.
(3) 'F.W.Maitland' in
Great Historians of the Modern Age,(ed.), L.Boia (Greenwood Press,
New York, 1991).
(4) 'Peter Laslett' in
'A Thousand Makers of the Twentieth Century', Sunday Times, 12.10.1991.
(5) 'Interview with Alan
Macfarlane', by Vinay K. Srivastava in Indian Anthropologist,
vol.21, no.1, June 1991.
(6) 'Some contributions
of Sir Henry Maine to history and anthropology' in The Victorian
Achievement of Sir Henry Maine, ed. Alan Diamond (Cambridge U.P.
1991)
(7) 'The Cambridge Experimental
Videodisc', European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, no.2 (1991)
1992
(1) 'Ernest Gellner and
the Escape to Modernity', in Power, Wealth and Belief: Essays in
Honour of Ernest Gellner, (eds.) J.A. Hall & I.C. Jarvie (Cambridge)
(2) 'The Potentials of
Videodisc in Visual Anthropology: Some Examples', in P.Crawford and
D.Turton (eds.), Film as Ethnography (Manchester Univ. Press)
(3) CAMBRIDGE DATABASE
SYSTEM INTERACTIVE (CDSi) MANUAL Trial Version 1.61. In collaboration
with Sarah Green and Michael Bryant. (Rivers Video Project). 160 pp.
(4) CAMBRIDGE DATABASE
SYSTEM INTERACTIVE (CDSi): Advanced probabilistic database retrieval
system software package: trial version 1.61
(5) FILMS ON THE GURUNGS
OF NEPAL: 21 films on various themes, including agriculture, dancing,
crafts, averaging 25 minutes each.
(6) Review of Claus-Dieter
Brauns and L.G. Loffler, Lorenz G., 'Mru - Hill People on the Border
of Bangladesh.', Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs,
Vol.26.
1993
(1) 'Ralph Josselin',
in Dictionary of National Biography, ed. C.S.Nicholls (Oxford)
(2) 'Louis Dumont and
the Origins of Individualism', Cambridge Anthropology, vol 16,
no.1.
(3) 'Japan and the West',
(Review article), Historical Journal, 36,2.
(4) Japanese edition
of THE CULTURE OF CAPITALISM, with a new preface.
(5a) Turkish edition
of THE CULTURE OF CAPITALISM with a new preface.
(5b) Turkish edition
of THE ORIGINS OF ENGLISH INDIVIDUALISM with a new preface.
(6) Bernard Pignede,
THE GURUNGS: A HIMALAYAN POPULATION OF NEPAL (Kathmandu), xliv
+ 523pp ; translated, edited and annotated, with Sarah Harrison.
(7)'On Individualism',
Radcliffe-Brown Memorial Lecture, British Academy Proceedings,
vol.82., re-published as a separate pamphlet by the Centre for Study
of Cultural Values, Lancaster University,1994, 42pp.
(8) 'Fatalism and Development
in Nepal' in Nepal in the Nineties' (Delhi), ed. Michael Hutt.
(9) FILMS ON THE GURUNGS
OF NEPAL: 8 films on various themes, including economics, ritual, biography,
averaging 12 minutes each.
1994
(1) 'History and Anthropology'
(review essay of Aaron Gurevich,'Historical Anthropology' ), Rural
History, 5 no.1.
(2) 'BBC Domesday: The
Social Construction of Britain on Videodisc' in Vizualizing Theory,
ed. Lucien Taylor.
(3) 'The Origins of Capitalism
in Japan, China and the West: The Work of Norman Jacobs.', Cambridge
Anthropology, Vol. 17, no.3 (1994), pp.43-66.
1995
(1) 'Individualism' in
The Social Science Encyclopedia (2nd edn., Routledge).
(2) 'Law and custom in
Japan: some comparative reflections', Continuity and Change 10(3)
(1995), pp.369-390.
(3) 'Work and Culture:
Some Comparisons of England and Japan', in Wellsprings of Achievement:
Cultural and Economic Dynamics in Early Modern England and Japan,
ed. P.Gouk (Variorum, 1995).
1996
(1) Obituary article
on Ernest Gellner, King's College Annual Report. (2,000 words)
(2) Preface to Carles
Salazar, A Sentimental Economy (Berghan Books, 1996) (1500 words)
(3) Review of Ernest
Gellner, Conditions of Liberty and Conversations in the Sacred Grove,
c.3,000 words. Appeared in 'Reviews in History', April 1996.
(http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ihr/reviews/reviews.mnu.html)
(4) Obituary of Professor
Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf (1909-1995), c.1500 words, with Mark
Turin, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies,
vol.lix, part3, 1996. pp.548-551.
(5) Obituary of Ernest
Gellner, (c.2,000 words), for King's College Annual Report, October
1996.
(6) Obituary of Ernest
Gellner, (c.3,000 words), for Cambridge Review, vol. 117, no.
2328, Nov. 1996.
(7) 'Ernest Gellner and
the Escape to Modernity' in John A.Hall and Ian Jarvie, The Social
Philosophy of Ernest Gellner (Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of
the Sciences and the Humanities, 48, (1996).(reprint)
(8) 'Fieldwork in the
Himalayas', 150 minute video film.
(9) 'Dilmaya's Pwe Lava:
A Gurung Memorial Ritual', 160 minute video film.
(10) Review of Lionel
Caplan, 'Warrior Gentlemen'. Bulletin of School of Oriental and African
Studies
1997
(1) 'Identity and Change
among the Gurungs (Tamu-mai) of Central Nepal' in ed. David Gellner
et al. Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom (Harwood,
1997).
(2) THE SAVAGE WARS
OF PEACE; ENGLAND, JAPAN AND THE MALTHUSIAN TRAP (Blackwell, 1997).
(3) 'Interview with Alan
Macfarlane', European Studies Newsletter: Nov. 1997. No.21.
(4) 'Gurung Buildings'
in ed. Paul Oliver, Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the
World, Cambridge University Press, 1997
(5) '"Japan" in an English
Mirror, Modern Asian Studies, 31, 4 (1997), pp.763-806.
1998
(1)'Fukuzawa and the
Riddle of the World' in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies (Tokyo,
1998).
(2) 'The Meaning of the
Comparative Method', (in Japanese, trans. Prof. Toshiko Nakamura), The
Journal of Hokkai-Gakuen University, no.94-5, March 1998.
(3) 'The mystery of property:
inheritance and industrialization in England and Japan' in C.M.Hann
(ed.), Property relations: Renewing the anthropological tradition
(Cambridge U.P. 1998), 104-123.
(4) 'Capitalist Society
and Capitalism' in Tetsuji Yamamoto
(ed), Philosophical
Designs for a Socio-Cultural Transformation:
Beyond violence and
the modern era (Ecole des Hautes Etudes,
Paris, 1998)
(5) Review of Susan Hanley,
'Everyday things in Premodern Japan'. Journal of Economic History.
1999
(1) Review of S.N.Eisenstadt,
'Japanese Civilization' in
Cambridge Anthropology,
1999.
(2) 'Four systems of
Stratification' in Ramachandra Guha and
J. Parry (eds), Institutions
and Inequalities in South Asia:
Essays Presented
to Andre Beteille, (Oxford U.P., Delhi, 1999)
(3) Second Edition of
Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England; A
regional and comparative
study, (Routledge, London, 1999)
2000
(1) Japanese edition
of MARRIAGE AND LOVE IN ENGLAND, with new preface (2) THE RIDDLE
OF THE MODERN WORLD; OF LIBERTY, WEALTH AND EQUALITY (a book on
Montesquieu, Adam Smith, De Tocqueville and Gellner - some 116,000 words.
Currently in press with Macmillan. c. June 2000
(3) 'Civility and the
Decline of Magic' in P.Slack, P.Burke and B.Harrison (eds.), Civil
Histories: Essays in Honour of Sir Keith Thomas (OUP., c.May 2000)
(4) 'Technological Evolution
and Involution; A Preliminary Comparison of Europe and Japan', (with
S.Harrison) in John Ziman (ed.), Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary
Process (CUP., Feb. 2000)
(5) Review of Eric Wolf,
Envisioning Power (1000 words), for Journal of latin American
Studies. - submitted March 2000
(6) 'The Earls Colne
Project: A Personal Account', History 2000 Website. BBC. March 2000.
(c. 1000 words)
(7) 'Don's Diary' in
Times Higher Education Supplement, 7.7.2000
(8) Major participant
in six-part television series on the origins of the Industrial Revolution,
'The Day the World
Took Off', Channel 4, May-June 2001
(9) Radio interviews
during May 2000: Local and regional radio stations as follows: Shropshire,
Cambridge, Greater Manchester, Wales, Leicester, Merseyside, Andy Peebles
Late Show, on the origins of the Industrial Revolution.
(10) Radio interview
on 18.10.2000 with Radio Merseyside on 'English Identity'.
2001
(1) Japanese edition of THE SAVAGE WARS OF PEACE: ENGLAND, JAPAN
AND THE MALTHUSIAN TRAP (Shinyosha, Tokyo, 2001), with a new preface.
(2) 'The Day the World Took Off'; Reflections on the Experience of Working
on a Television Series', Cambridge Anthropology, 22:1,2000/2001,
pp.67-77
(3) 'David Hume and the political economy of agrarian civilization',
History of European Ideas 27 (2001). Pp. 79-91
2002
THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD; VISIONS FROM THE WEST AND THE EAST
(Palgrave, London, 2002)
With Gerry Martin, THE GLASS BATHYSCAPHE; HOW GLASS CHANGED THE
WORLD (Profile Books, London, 2002).
'A Transparent revolution', Times Higher, 21 June 2002
'Sliding Down the Himalayas; Social Change in a Gurung Village', European
Bulletin of Himalayan Research (July 2002).
Various radio interviews to launch the book on Glass, including with
Jeremy Paxman in 'Start the Week'.
2003
With Iris Macfarlane, GREEN GOLD; THE EMPIRE OF TEA (Ebury Press,
2003)
Second edition of RESOURCES AND POPULATION; A STUDY OF THE GURUNGS
OF NEPAL, with a new introduction, (Ratna Pustak, Kathmandu, 2002)
Paperback edition of THE SAVAGE WARS OF PEACE,; ENGLAND, JAPAN AND
THE MALTHUSIAN TRAP, with a new epilogue (Palgrave, 2003)
Preface to Aglaja Stirn and Peter van Ham,The Hidden World of the
Naga (Prestel, 2003)
Various radio interviews in connection with publication of 'Tea' and
'Glass' paperback
Translation of Alan Macfarlane and Gerry Martin, THE GLASS BATHYSCAPHE
into Chinese, with a new prace, published by Commercial Press. Also
paperback edition, June, 2003.
'Alfred Antony Francis Gell, 1945-1997'. Proceedings of the British
Academy, 120, pp.127-147 (2003)
2004
Alan Macfarlane and Gerry Martin, THE GLASS BATHYSCAPHE (2002),
translated and published in Italian [Una storia invisible, Editori
Laterza, 2003] and German [Eine Welt aus Glas, Claussenn, 2004].
Alan Macfarlane and Iris Macfarlane, GREEN GOLD; THE EMPIRE OF TEA
(American edition, 2004 as The Empire of Tea, The Remarkable History
of the Plant that Took Over the World, Overlook Press, N.Y), published
in a Chinese translation with a new preface by Shantou University Press,
2004, published in paperback in 2004.
'A World of Glass' (with Gerry Martin), Science, vol.305, 3
September 2004, pp.1407-8.
'China Diaries', (with Xiaoxiao Yan), Cambridge Anthropology,
24:2, 2004, pp. 75-90
'To contrast and compare' in Methodology and Fieldwork, (ed.)
Vinay Kumar Srivastava (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2004), pp.94-111
'Work in Nepalese Anthropology', in Nepal Studies in the UK, Conversations
with Practitioners, (ed.) Pratyoush Onta (Martin Chautari, Kathmandu,
2004), pp. 11-21
'Population Structure and Social Structure in Modern China, Japan,
England and India: Reflections on the great divergence', translated
into Chinese by Qingsue Li, in James Lee (ed), A New View of Research
on Family History (Beijing, 2004), pp.460-472
2005
What makes Law Effective?, (1500 words), Times Higher Education
Supplement, April 2005
Un mondo di vetro, Kos: Rivista di medicina, cultura e
scienze umane, no.232/233, Jan-Feb 2005, pp.18-23
LETTERS TO LILY: ON HOW THE WORLD WORKS (Profile
Books, London, 2005), 311pp.
Oro Verde: El Imperio del te (Oceano, 2005), [Spanish
translation of Green Gold, The Empire of Tea]
Letters to Lily: On How the World Works (Korean translation, Random
House 2005), 350 pp.
Green Gold; the Empire of Tea (2005) [Complex Chinese translation
of Green Gold, published in Taiwan]
Preface to Jamie Saul, The Naga of Burma, Their festivals, Customs
and Way of Life (Thailand, 2005)
Preface to David Prendergast, From Elder to Ancestor: Old Age,
Death and Inheritance in Modern Korea (Hawaii, 2005)
2006
(to September)
Special preface and translated edition of Chinese mainland version
of Letters to Lily: On How the World Works (Commercial Press, Beijing,
2006)
Collaborator and major contributor to Howard and Christopher Dawes,
Making things from New Ideas; the secrets of prosperity (Dawes Trust,
Pershore, Worcestershire, 2006)
Comments on John Ziman's, No Man is an Island,
special issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol.13, no.5 (2006),
43-52.
Web Anthropology; Some Potentials for Visual and Computer Anthropology
in Visual Anthropology, vol. 19 (2006), 1-3
Letters to Lily; on How the World Works (translated and published
in Japan, Norway, Denmark and Taiwan)
SETS
OF EDITED MATERIALS
(This
is updated until 2003 only as many of these materials are now on
this website, www.alanmacfarlane.com)
Reconstructing
Historical Communities with a computer
Associates in project:
Sarah Harrison, Charles Jardine, Jessica King, Dr Timothy King, Cherry
Bryant, Iris Macfarlane, Dr Tim Mills
Funding: King's
College Research Centre (1972-5), Economic and Social Research Council
(three project grants, 1975-1982); King's College Research Centre (1997-2000)
Dates of project:
1973-1982;1997-2002
Nature of material:
complete historical records of the parish of Earls Colne in Essex, 1380-1750,
with many other records to 1854; most of the historical records for
the parish of Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1500-1750 also transcribed,
and then deposited at Lancaster University. The Earls Colne materials
constitute about ten thousand pages of typed materials, and the Kirkby
Lonsdale materials about half that amount.
Publishing medium:
microfiche (Charles Chadwyck Healey) for Earls Colne
(1982); World Wide Web version, 2000. (see www.alanmacfarlane.com)
Original transcripts
deposited: Earls Colne in the Department of Social Anthropology,
Cambridge; Kirkby Lonsdale in the Library, University of Lancaster.
Covering dates of
material: 1380-1854
Original languages
of material: Latin, English
Related software:
CODD (Co-routine Driven Database), CHIPS (Cambridge Heuristic Interactive
Program Set), a relational database with accompanying interrogatory
software; database system written by Dr Tim Mills.
Indexes and computer
readable materials: large set of materials
(approximately 120 megabytes
plus) of machine readable texts and indexes.
Sources of materials:
documents in local record offices and the Public Record Office,
London
Research Reports:
annual and final reports to the E.S.R.C. (the final report is deposited
in the British Lending Library), on first projects up to 1982. (see
on this website)
Cambridge Experimental
Videodisc Project (the Nagas)
Associates in project:
Michael Bryant, Sarah Harrison, Anita Herle, Julian Jacobs, Dr Martin
Porter
Funding: King's
College Research Centre, Leverhulme Trust, Nuffield Foundation, Economic
and Social Research Council, Renaissance Trust.
Dates of project:
1985 to 1993, 2002-4
Nature of material:
(a) 6500 black and white field photographs; 1350 colour photographs
of museum objects; 150 sequences of moving film; maps, sketches, painting
and 72 minutes of sound. (b) about 5000 pages of text, including much
unpublished historical material (field notes, tour diaries, letters,
thesis), as well as some published materials. All of this concerns the
Naga peoples of the North-Eastern frontier of India and Burma.
Publishing medium:
videodisc (optical disc) contains (a) above; the data and indexes to
the data are contained in a database which is distributed on floppy
disc (some 24 megabytes in size). There is also a book (listed under
publications for 1990). Currently being converted for the web.
Original transcripts
deposited: Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge.
Covering dates of
material: 1850-1980
Original languages
of material: English, German
Related software:
the Cambridge Database System (CDS) a probabilistic information retrieval
system based on the MUSCAT (Museum Cataloguing system), written by Dr.Martin
Porter. Also 'Videoscript', a program to provide 'authoring' facilities
on a videodisc player in combination with an Amiga microcomputer. A
new system is being written in 2003 (Bamboo)
Indexes and computer
readable materials: as described above.
Sources of materials:
private collections, Pitt-Rivers Museum and Archive, Cambridge Museum
of Archaeology and Anthropology, Museum of Mankind and other archives.
Research Reports:
annual reports, 1985-1989 to Nuffield Foundation and Economic and Social
Research Council (final report to ESRC deposited in the British Lending
Library).
Social Change
in Central Nepal
Associates in project:
Sarah Harrison, Michael Bryant, Gill Macfarlane
Funding: London-Cornell
Project, Economic and Social Research Council, Renaissance Trust.
Dates of project:
1968 to present
Nature of material:
mainly fieldwork materials collected among the Gurungs of central Nepal
- notes, diary, 2000 field photographs, approx. C.100 hours of moving
film (to 2003), census etc. Also the manuscripts and photographs of
Bernard Pignede (deceased) among the Gurungs and the manuscripts of
tours in Nepal by Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf.
Publishing medium:
a series of films (36 to 1991; approx. 80 by 2000, averaging some 20
minutes each in length) for use in teaching and research; some articles
and a book (and other works in preparation), database of material on
computer hard-disc. Some films are now on www.digitalhimalaya.com and
others on www.alanmacfarlane.com.
Original transcripts
deposited: Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge.Film material
currently being archived as part of the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital
Library project at the University of Virginia.
Covering dates of
material: 1958 to present
Original languages
of material: Gurung, English, French, Nepali
Related software:
Cambridge Database System.
Indexes and computer
readable materials: in preparation for the web
Sources of materials:
private collections, India Office Library, Centre d'Etudes Indiennes,
Paris, and elsewhere
Research Reports:
Report to London-Cornell Project; Report to Economic and Social Research
Council.
TEACHING FILMS
Introduction to kinship
and marriage; ten films of twenty minutes each, based on Part I lectures,
covering topics such as descent, marriage, sexual relations etc. Copy
deposited (and used) in the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge.
Also on www.alanmacfarlane.com
Parson Malthus: twenty
minute film made with undergraduates, copy deposited in Department of
Social Anthropology, Cambridge
Lectures on law and justice
in England, the full versions behind a BBC documentary on English archives,
now on www.alanmacfarlane.com
Introduction to social
anthropology: four films (each about fifty minutes in length), used
as an introduction to the discipline; copy in the Department of Social
Anthropology, Cambridge
Three films on fieldwork methods, drawing on my Nepal experience, are
now on the web.
Films of a course of
eight lectures on great social thinkers, from Montesquieu to Gellner,
currently being prepared for the web.
Biographical/archival
films
Archival films, lasting
between one and four hours each, covering the life and work of the following:
(interviewer in brackets, if not A.M.): Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf,
Jack Goody (Eric Hobsbawm), Andre Beteille, John Barnes (Jack Goody),
Jean La Fontaine (Jack Goody), Owen Lattimore (Caroline Humphrey), Peter
Worsley, Robert Paine, Colonel John Cross, G.I.Jones, Lucy Mair (Jean
La Fontaine), Ursula Graham Bower, Peter Riviere (Laura Rival), Nich
Allen, Michael Banton, Peter Loizos, Ronald Dore, Peter Gathercole,
Clifford Geertz, Nur Yalman, Scarlett Epstein, Akbar Ahmed, George Appell,
Peter Burketand several Chinese survivors of the cultural revolution.
Archival films, lasting
less than one hour: Ronald Frankenberg, S.J.Tambiah, Raymond Firth,
Rosemary Firth, Philip Gulliver, Philip Mayer and others.
Most of these are available
off my web-site.
Films based
on anthropological fieldwork in Nepal
Some 80 or so films,
from 9 minutes to 156 minutes in length, on all aspect of Gurung life.
These films are used in teaching and research. Currently being prepared
for the web.
TELEVISION
Television film for 'Timewatch'
series based on book 'The Justice and the Mare's Ale', c. 1988. On alanmacfarlane.com
Appearance, with Sarah
Harrison, in all of the six films in a BBC millenium series on British
Archives, 2000
Chief contributor to
a six, one-hour per program, television series on 'The Day the World
Took Off', which was the the C4 special 'millenium' feature in April
2000. This has involved filming extensively in Japan (10 days), Nepal
(10 days), Venice, Istanbul, Scotland and various locations in England.
It covers many aspects of history, in various parts of the globe, over
the last ten thousand years. All the final programmes, the six seminars
behind them, and 200 films on location, are on my website.
CURRENT RESEARCH
AND UNPUBLISHED WORK
My work is diverse. It
impinges on at least seven major theoretical disciplines (history, legal
history, historical demography, anthropology, sociology, computing,
visual media). It stretches over three main cultural areas (western
Europe, Himalayas (Nepal and Assam), East Asia (Japan, China). The publications
arising from this work takes five major forms (books and articles, software
and manuals, video and television films, videodisc, microfiche). I have
therefore provided a guide to work on which I have been and am still
engaged under various headings. This summary refers by date and number
to the full title of the relevant publications cited in the list of
publications in annex B above.
SUBSTANTIVE
THEORETICAL QUESTIONS [to 200)' This section has formed the basis for
this web-site. The sections of the web-site continue the story in relation
to publications from 2001, so please see under the separate headings
after that date]
The history of witchcraft,
magic and the inquisition.
This consists of a study
of the sociology and philosophy of witchcraft beliefs and their treatment
in the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries in Europe.
Publications:
Oxford D.Phil. thesis, 'Witchcraft in England';197O:1;197O:2;197O:4;1977:3;1977:5;1982:1;1983:5;
1984:1;1985:1;1988:;5;1999:3; 2000:3.
Other: helped
to set up an information retrieval system for the records of the Portuguese
Inquisition, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation and King's College,
Cambridge; took part in TV programme on witchcraft in East Anglia (1982);
studied witchcraft and shamanism in a Himalayan village (Thak), see
films and writings on Nepal, including appendix to translation of Pignede.
History of the family,
love and marriage.
I have been undertaking
various studies of the development of the western, and particularly
the English, system of kinship and marriage from the twelfth to the
twentieth centuries, and latterly comparing these to systems in Nepal
and Japan (see under those places also).
Publications:
M.Phil. thesis on incest (1968); 1979:3;198O:2; 198O:3;1986:1;1987:3;1988:3;1993:7;2000:1.
Other: extensive
unpublished writings on the history of the family, and sexual behaviour;
series of 10 twenty-minute teaching videos on kinship and marriage,
large numbers of lectures given to undergraduates on various themes
in this field.
History of violence,
war and law.
The social roots and
consequences of violent behaviour, particularly in England between the
fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. The working of the English and Japanese
legal systems over the centuries from the fifteenth to the nineteenth.
Publications:
198O:1;1981:1;1986:2;1995:2.
Other: BBC 'Timewatch'
television program, based on 1981:1 (1985).unpublished articles on violence,
crime in Essex, lectures on law and society, lectures on mafia/feud/bandits
and war. Major contributor to BBC millenium series on English law and
archives, April 2000.
History of population
and resources.
Various studies of the
nature and causes of the demographic revolution, the contribution of
T.R.Malthus, and the relation between population and resources, particularly
in historic England and Japan and contemporary Nepal.
Published: Ph.D.
thesis on population in Nepal,1968:1;1976:1; 1978:3;1979:1;1981:4;1981:6;1997:2
Other: lectures
on population, work on demographic change in contemporary Nepal, video
film (with students) on T.R.Malthus.
History of capitalism,
industrialism and individualism.
The origins, causes and
consequences of individualism and capitalism, from the ninth to nineteenth
centuries, with particular reference to England and Japan.
Publications:
1978:1;1978:2;1978:4;1978:5;1984:2;1984:3; 1987:2;1988:1; 1992:1; 1993:7;
1995:1; 1996:2; 1998:3,4;
Other: unpublished
lectures on community and society, lecture on 'the contradictions of
capitalism', writings on Anglo-Saxon origins; unpublished lectures on
the comparison of Japanese and English society and the origins of capitalism
and individualism; preliminary draft of parts of a book comparing Japanese
and English society over the last thousand years.
History of technological
and scientific change.
The causes and consequences
of changes in technology ('effective action') and in science ('reliable
knowledge') over the last ten thousand or so years. The causes and consequences
of changes in the technology of production, communication and destruction.
Publications:
1997,2; 2000,4;
Other: Several
book-length typescripts on various aspects of technological and scientific
developments. One mainly concerns technology, another science, a third
glass and its impact. Also a good deal in the C4 television series on
'Riddle of the World' and large numbers of notes and readings during
project with Gerry Martin.
Other areas
of substantive research.
Lectures on the growth
of the city and urban life; visual anthropology; state systems; inequality;
community; kinship and marriage in history and other topics.
CIVILIZATIONS
OUTSIDE EUROPE
Anthropology and social
history of Nepal and the Gurungs.
An intensive study of
the Gurung tribe of central Nepal, based on two and a half years of
anthropological fieldwork in the local language, during twelve visits
between 1968 and 2000, with a particular emphasis on their demographic,
economic and ritual systems and the effects of recent change, and on
creating a visual and textual archive of a village as it changes.
Published: Ph.D.
thesis on Gurungs (1972); 1976:1; 1981:5; 1989:1; 199O; 1,4,5,6; 1993,6,8;
1997:4;
Other: Various
unpublished articles and talks; approx. eighty films (varying from 10
to 150 minutes in length) on various themes, used in teaching, research
training and research.
The ethno-history
of the Nagas of the North East India.
An ethno-historical analysis
of the various Naga tribes, from their first encounter with the British
in 1830 up to 1947, based on contemporary textual and visual archives.
Publications:
1988:2,1988:6,1989:4;1990:3
Other: contributor
to special exhibition on the Nagas in the Andrews Gallery of the Cambridge
University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (July 1990 - April
1992), and in particular to special videodisc system and programs in
a reconstructed Naga long-house; interview with Ursula Graham Bower
(video) and contributor to B.B.C. program on 'Naga Queen'. We visited
Nagaland for ten days in November 2001.
The ethnographic
materials of Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf.
For some years I have
been organizing, indexing and cataloguing the large collection of films,
photographs, field notebooks and field diaries of a leading ethnographer
of India and Nepal.
Publications:
1988:2 (includes 2500 photographs and one hundred extracts of moving
film by Professor Haimendorf); 1989:4 (includes translations of four
volumes of German diaries and 15 field notebooks); 1990:3 (which includes
over 200 archival photographs by Professor Haimendorf); 1996:4
Other: Collection
of approx. 100 reels of 16mm moving film, indexed by Mark Turin (with
support of Williamson Fund), preliminary index of over 10,000 colour
slides; computer input of tour diaries of travels in Nepal. Some extracts
are on digitalhimalaya.com and they are currently being restored and
digitized in collaboration with the the British Universities Film and
Video Council.
Japan
Visited Japan in 1990
(six weeks), 1993 (4 weeks), 1997 (three months as a Visiting Professor
at Tokyo University), ten days filming with C4 in 1999, and three weeks
in July 2003l; I am interested in the comparison of England, Nepal and
Japan. I have now read quite extensively on Japanese history, supervise
a number of graduate students working on Japanese topics, and have set
up a number of links with Japanese scholars. Four of my books have been
or are being translated into Japanese.
Publications:
1993:3,7; 1994:3; 1995:2,3; 1997:2,5; 1998:3; 1999:1: 2000:4,5;
China
We visited China
in 1996 (3 weeks), 2002 (4 weeks) and 2003 (4 weeks), travelling to
Beijing, the North East (old Manchuria), the centre (Wuhan) and South-West
(Yunnan). We are working with a number of Chinese scholars. In 2004
we visited for three weeks, from Shanghai and Nanjing, to Chengdu and
Yunnan and finally to Beijing. Further scholars were contacted as well
as Chinese television.
My two co-authored
books on Glass and Tea have been or are being published
in Chinese translation. My book on The Origins of English Individualism
is currently being translated.
THEORETICAL
METHODOLOGY
Changes in theoretical
systems.
Changing theoretical
structures, concepts of time and space, nature and culture, evolution,
function and structure, major paradigms in the social sciences and their
causes and consequences.
Published: 1983:2,1986
Other: series
of lectures on paradigm shifts from ancient society to the present,
eight lectures on great social thinkers have been filmed.
ENCOUNTERS WITH
MAJOR THEORISTS
As one way of working
out a framework for the study of history and anthropology I have studied
the works of selected major figures in these and neighbouring fields.
These can best be noted by author. They are not in any particular order
at present. [The various works here can be seen also on my web-sige,
with added magterials from 2000 on]
Ernest Gellner
(1925-1995)
Various articles, conversations,
obituaries and chapters of books related to this philosopher's work.
Publications 1996:1,3,5,7;
1998:1; 1999:2; 2000:2
Other Numerous
conversations, writings etc., and a video of one of his last lectures
in Cambridge
F.W.Maitland (1850-1906)
Publications 1991:3;
Other A completed
draft of a book on 'The Mystery of Modernity' contains five chapters
on F.W.Maitland, approximately half the book. I shall be delivering
the Maitland memorial lecture at Downing College, in 2000.
Norman Jacobs
Publications 1994:3
Keith Thomas
Publications 1983:2;
1987:2 (ch.4); 2000:3
Marc Bloch
Publications 1981:4;
Other Various
notes and writings on Bloch. Part of these will appear in 'The Mystery
of Modernity' as the concluding part of a chapter on Maitland.
Yukichi Fukuzawa
Publications 1998:1
Other A full-length
study of Fukuzawa has been written. Half of this will appear as the
first three chapters of 'The Mystery of Modernity' in c. 2001. Filming
of Fukuzawa's club, school and a talk in the Speech Hall at Keio University
undertaken for C4 series in 1999.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Publications 2000:2
(four chapters, approx 40,000 words, on Tocqueville)
Adam Smith
Publications 2000:2
(four chapters, approx 40,000 words, on Smith)
Baron de Montesquieu
Publications 2000:2
(three chapters, approx 25,000 words, on Montesquieu)
Henry Maine
Publications 1991:6
Other Drafts of
several other chapters for a study of Maine.
Andre Beteille
Publications 1999:2
Other Correspondence
with and two video interviews with A.B.
Dor Bahadur
Bista
Publications 1990:1,4
Thomas Malthus
Publications 1976:1:
(last chapter); 1986:1 (chs. 1-3); 1997:2 (ch.1)
David Hume
Other
Most of chapter considering
Pope, Mandeville and Hume is devoted to Hume in 'The Mystery of Modernity',
awaiting publication.
Louis Dumont
Publications 1993:2
Robert Chambers
A full-length book, written
in collaboration with Iris Macfarlane, on the Scottish publisher and
polymath Robert Chambers is currently awaiting publication.
Others
Various reviews, articles
and unpublished writings (some of which will be published) on the following
figures.
Aaron Gurevich, J.S.Cockburn,
Karl Marx, Max Weber, E.A.Freeman, Francis Fukuyama, Ishiguru (novelist),
Fernand Braudel, David Landes, E.A. Wrigley, Lawrence Stone, Bernard
Mandeville, William Stubbs, R.H. Tawney, Christopher Hill, G.M. Trevelyan,
Karl Jaspers, Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf (see separate section above),
Peter Laslett, J.G.A.Pocock, J.C.D.Clark, G.I.Jones
Other
I have made about thirty
video interviews (from 20 mins. to three hours in length) with leading
anthropologists and sociologists. The interviews of over two hours in
length include: Lucy Mair, John Barnes, Jack Goody, Polly Hill, Christoph
von Furer-Haimendorf, Owen Lattimore, Ursula Graham Bower, Peter Worsley,
Andre Beteille, Jean La Fontaine, G.I.Jones. Another twenty or so shorter
interviews of 20-60 minutes.
A small project with
Getty foundation on the early history of anthropology was undertaken
with Julian Jacobs.
A project in the later
1970's to videotape several international seminars where leading figures
in history and anthropology attended (Edmund Leach, Maurice Godelier,
Peter Burke, Keith Thomas and others). Another seminar filmed in King's
in 1999 with five international scholars.
GENERAL THEORETICAL
METHODOLOGY [Mujch of this and other materials since 2000 are on my
web-site]
As well as analysing
methodology in the work of particular authors, I have written various
pieces on how history and anthropology can best be done. Among the pieces
on this are:
Publications 1973:1;
1977:4; 1978:1; 1987:2 (postscript); 1988:4; 1994:1; 1997:2 (ch.21)
Other Various
writings, including pieces on 'Absences, reflections on the origins
of capitalism'; 'Only connect - one fact one card'; 'Holism, Individualism
and the Assumptions of the Observer'; 'Sherlock Holmes and the Analytical
Method'; 'Structural and Functional Approaches to Civilizations'; 'Scholarly
standards: judgment, accuracy and honesty'.
PRACTICAL AND
APPLIED RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The methodology of
history and anthropology. [Much of this and other materials since
2000 re on my web-site]
The practical methodology
of history, local history and anthropology, with particular reference
to the English past.
Publications:
1973:1;1974:1;1977:1;1977:2;1977:4;1979:2;1979:4; 198O:4;1981:2;1983:3;1981:7;1983:1;1983:3;1988:4;
1991:3,4,5,6; 1992:1; 1993:2; 1994:1;1998:2;
Other: an unpublished
article on 'Potentials of Local History',various unpublished talks on
local history, history and anthropology.
Diaries and diary
keeping.
The reasons for writing
and the value of diaries in England between the sixteenth and nineteenth
centuries.
Publications:
197O:3,1976:2;1985:2
The use of visual
media; film, video and optical disc. [see the web-site also]
I have made some study
of the potentials for teaching and research of new visual media, in
particular light-weight video (Video 8, Hi-8, digital video) and optical
disc (videodisc. digital versatile disc [DVD]) technology.
Publications:
1987:1;1989:3;199O:2,5;1991:1,7; 1992,2; 1994,2
Other: with M.Bryant,
the 'Videoscript' videodisc text-authoring system and Manual. Various
lectures and courses on visual anthropology; various films made with
the Rivers Video Project (started in 1981 by Alan Macfarlane); committee
member of BBC Domesday Disc, (1985-6); chief advisor to Channel 4 (Windfall)
millenium series on 'The Riddle of the World', due to be broadcast April
2000 (6 x 1 hr programs on all the world over ten thousand years).
The use of computers
in information retrieval. [see the web-site also]
I have been exploring
some of the potentials of computer information storage and retrieval
of textual and visual material, historical and ethnographic.
Publications:
1989:2, 1991:3
Other: involved
in development of major software.
a) With Charles Jardine,
Tim King and Ken Moody, of the CODD (COroutine Driven Database) database
system - as described in T.J.King and J.K.Moody, 'Design and Implementation
of CODD', Software-Practice and Experience,vol.13 (1983) and
T.J.King, 'The use of a relational database management system to store
historical records', in State of the Art Report DATABASE, Series
9,no.8, ed. Atkinson, Pergamon Infotech,1981.
b) With Dr Martin Porter
of the MUSCAT (Museum Cataloguing System) into the CDS (Cambridge Database
System) information retrieval system for use with or without a videodisc.
c) With Michael Bryant,
of the VIDEOSCRIPT (Video Script Writing System), an 'authoring' package
for use with videodiscs, particularly linked to an 'Amiga' computer.
(Manual & software), as used in the Naga Museum Exhibition.
d) With Sarah Harrison,
Dr. Tim Mills, Dr. J.K. Moody and others on developing a Web site to
hold the Earls Colne data, originally in association with the computing
firm Persimmon, then with AT&T.
e) With Sarah Harrison
and Lemur
Consulting, Cambridge, working on a web database of the Naga data
which was originally published on Videodisc.
Bibliography
and book preservation.
I am interested in the
history and nature of writing, printing, publishing, binding and bibliography
in general, in particular in England and Scotland.
Other: unpublished
lectures on the effects of writing and printing; academic adviser to
the second-hand specialist book-business 'Bracton Books' (affiliated
to the R.A.I., specialist in history, anthropology, law and the social
sciences); book collector (collection of some 8,000 books in the various
fields above); computer bibliographic program (devised mainly by S.Harrison
and M.Bryant) 'BRACSORT', which also contains an index to my personal
books.