Creative Lives and Works: Raymond Firth, Audrey Richards, Lucy Mair, Meyer Fortes and Edmund Leach

ISBN-13: 9780367762537 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 198 str.

Alan MacFarlane

Opis

This book is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Alan Macfarlane. The current volume is on five of England’s foremost social anthropologists. The book will be of enormous value to those interested in History and Culture Studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. PART I Raymond Firth – In conversation with Alan Macfarlane 3. PART II Audrey Richards – In conversation with Jack Goody 4. PART III Lucy Mair – In conversation with Jean La Fontaine and Alan Macfarlane 5. PART IV Meyer Fortes – Tallensi Divination  – In conversation with Jack Goody 6. My Encounter with Meyer Fortes –  Alan Macfarlane  7. PART V Edmund Leach – In conversation with Frank Kermode 8. Anthropological Ancestors

O autorze

Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Sedbergh School, Oxford and London Universities where he received two Master’s degrees and two doctorates. He is the author of over forty 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. Professor Macfarlane received the Huxley Memorial Medal, the highest honour of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2012.