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  • Japan Through the Looking Glass

    A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY THROUGH JAPAN'S MULTI-FACETED CUSTOMS AND CULTURE'An excellent book for anyone with an interest in Japanese culture' Sunday Telegraph'Takes in everything from the mythical roots of sumo to the ubiquity of Shinto shrines' The TimesAlan Macfarlane first encountered Japan full of certainty, confidence and unexamined assumptions. He soon found his preconceptions challenged on ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Imperialism and Colonialism

    Christopher Bayly, Richard Rathbone and Richard Drayton

    Imperialism and Colonialism: Christopher Bayly, Richard Rathbone and Richard Drayton is a collection of interviews that are being published as a book for the first time. These interviews have been conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of several years, the three conversations in this volume are part of the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Historical Ethnography and Peasant Societies

    McKim Marriott, James Scott and Maurice Bloch

    Series series Creative Lives and Works
    Historical Ethnography and Peasant Societies: McKim Marriott, James Scott and Maurice Bloch is a collection of interviews that is being published as a book for the first time. These interviews have been conducted by a leading British social anthropologist and historian, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of several years, the three conversations in this volume are a part of the series ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Law and Justice

    Thomas Bingham, Nicholas Phillips and Eleanor Sharpston

    Series series Creative Lives and Works
    Law and Justice: Thomas Bingham, Nicholas Phillips and Eleanor Sharpston is the first time a collection of interviews is being published as a book. These interviews have been conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane.Filmed over a period of several years, the three conversations in this volume are part of the series Creative Lives and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Science of Life

    Andrew Huxley, Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow

    Series series Creative Lives and Works
    The Science of Life: Andrew Huxley, Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow is part of the series Creative Lives and Works. It is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of 40 years, the three conversations in this volume are part of a larger set of interviews that cut across various ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Science and Culture

    Lisa Jardine, Jean Michel Massing and Simon Schaffer

    Series series Creative Lives and Works
    Science and Culture: Lisa Jardine, Jean Michel Massing and Simon Schaffer is a collection of interviews that are being published as a book for the first time. These interviews have been conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane.Filmed over a period of several years, the three conversations in this volume are part of the series Creative ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • From Antiquity to Ethnography

    Keith Thomas, Brian Harrison and Peter Burke

    Series series Creative Lives and Works
    From Antiquity to Ethnography: Keith Thomas, Brian Harrison and Peter Burke is the first time a collection of these interviews is being published as a book. They have been conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane.Filmed over a period of several years, the three conversations in this volume are part of the series Creative Lives and Works ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Letters To Lily: On how the world works

    On how the world works

    In a frank and unpretentious series of letters addressed to a teenage granddaughter, this highly original book teaches us to know and understand the world we live in and its rules, and how to behave in it. In these thirty letters, Alan Macfarlane answers his granddaughter's questions about how the world works, how it got to be as it is, what it could be, and where she fits in. Lily's enquiries ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Of Poverty and Wealth

    Eric Hobsbawm, Barry Supple and Gareth Stedman Jones

    Series series Creative Lives and Works
    Of Poverty and Wealth: Eric Hobsbawm, Barry Supple and Gareth Stedman Jones is a collection of interviews that is being published as a book for the first time. These interviews have been conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane.Filmed over a period of several years, the three conversations in this volume are part of the series Creative ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England

    This is a classic regional and comparative study of early modern witchcraft. The history of witchcraft continues to attract attention with its emotive and contentious debates. The methodology and conclusions of this book have impacted not only on witchcraft studies but the entire approach to social and cultural history with its quantitative and anthropological approach. The book provides an ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Creative Lives and Works

    Antony Hewish, Martin Rees and Neil Turok

    Series series Creative Lives and Works
    Creative Lives and Works: Antony Hewish, Martin Rees and Neil Turok is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of 40 years, the three conversations in this volume, are part of a larger set of interviews that cut across various disciplines, from the social sciences, the sciences and to ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Creative Lives and Works

    Frank Kermode, George Steiner, Gillian Beer and Christopher Ricks

    Series series Creative Lives and Works
    Creative Lives and Works: Frank Kermode, George Steiner, Gillian Beer and Christopher Ricks is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of 40 years, the four conversations in this volume, are part of a larger set of interviews that cut across various disciplines, from the social sciences, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD