MACFARLANE, Prof. Alan Donald James; son of Major Donald Kennedy Macfarlane
(died 1976), and Iris, born Rhodes James.
Born
20 December 1941, in Assam, India.
Education:
Dragon School, Sedbergh, Worcester College, Oxford (MA, D.Phil), L.S.E.
(M.Phil.), SOAS (Ph.D.)
Married:1st.
1966 (dissolved) Gillian Ions; 1 daughter (Katharine, born 1970); 2nd.
1981, Sarah Harrison, born Tarring.
Career:University
of Cambridge: lecturer in social anthropology 1975-81, reader in historical
anthropology 1981, professor of anthropological science 1991; King's
College, Cambridge: senior research fellow in history, 1971-74; fellow
1981 on.
Recreations:
gardening, second-hand book hunting, walking, filming.
Recognition
: Projects : Life
: Explorations
Books
Witchcraft
in Tudor and Stuart England (1970)
The
Family Life of Ralph Josselin (1970)
Resources
and Population (1976)
The
Diary of Ralph Josselin (1976) (editor)
Reconstructing
Historical Communities (1977)
The
Origins of English Individualism (1978)
The
Justice and the Mare's Ale (1981)
A
Guide to English Historical Records (1983)
Marriage
and Love in England (1986)
The
Culture of Capitalism (1987)
Julian
Jacobs, The Nagas (1990)
(collaborator)
Bernard
Pignede, The Gurungs (1993)
(co-editor and translator with Sarah Harrison)
The
Savage Wars of Peace (1997)
The
Riddle of the Modern World (2000)
The
Making of the Modern World (2001)
The
Glass Bathscaphe: How Glass Changed the World (2002) (with Gerry
Martin)
Green
Gold: The Empire of Tea (2003) (with Iris Macfarlane)
Letters
to Lily (2005)