Alan Macfarlane
Author · 11 books
Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Sedbergh School, Oxford and London Universities. He is the author of over twenty 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 an 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.
Series
Books
Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England
1970
Resources and Population
A Study of the Gurungs of Nepal
1976
The Savage Wars of Peace
1997
Letters to Lily
On How the World Works
2005
Japan Through the Looking Glass
2007
The Empire of Tea
2004
The Glass Bathyscaphe
How Glass Changed the World
2002
The Origins of English Individualism
The Family Property and Social Transition
1978
The Family Life of Ralph Josselin
A Seventeenth-Century Clergyman
1970
The Invention of the Modern World
2014
Glass
A World History
2002
