Alan Macfarlane: Interviews with Anthropologists
Interviews with Anthropologists is a collection of 91 interviews made by Alan Macfarlane between 1976 and 2010. Details of the full collection of anthropologist interviews can be browsed on DSpace@Cambridge by clicking here.
Interviews with Anthropologists is part of a wider collection of Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers, which can be found here.
Collection Details:
Collection: Interviews with Anthropologists
Collector: Alan Macfarlane
Date(s): 1976 - 2010
Language(s): English
1. Akbar Ahmed
Akbar Ahmed describes his family background, life as a colonial officer in Pakistan, and role as an analyst and spokesman for Islamic civilization.
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2. Michael Allen
Interview on the life and work of Michael Allen in Nepal, Melanesia and Ireland.
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3. Nicholas Allen
An interview of Nicholas Allen on 19th September 2001.
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4. George Appell
Interview of George Appell in which he talks frankly about his life and his work as an anthropologist in Borneo.
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5. Laura Appell
Interview of Laura Appell about her life and work among the Rungus of Borneo.
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6. Raymond Apthorpe
Interview with Raymond Apthorpe on his early life and training in Social Anthropology.
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7. Asen Balikci
An interview with Asen Balikci about his life and work in anthropology, particularly in the Arctic regions.
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8. Michael Banton
A survey of his life and work at Edinburgh and elsewhere, including extensive work on race relations, various people including Shils, Popper and Gellner.
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9. John Barnes
John Barnes describes his background, his education and move to work in East Afric, his work with the Rhodes Livingstone Institute, his time in Australia and finally as his time as Professor of Social and Political Sciences in Cambridge.
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10. Fredrick Barth
An interview with Professor Fredrick Barth about his anthropological theories and fieldwork in the Middle East, Pakistan and New Guinea.
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11. John Beattie
John Beattie talks of how he came to be an anthropologist and why he came to work in East Africa. The influence of Audrey Richards, Evans-Pritchard and others is described.
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12. Jonathan Benthall
Interview of Jonathan Benthall on his life and work, in particular as Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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13. Andre Beteille
Andre Beteille speaks of his childhood and natural inclination to anthropology, his training, fieldwork in Dehli and the influence of his supervisor, M.N. Srinivas.
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14. Maurice Bloch
An interview on the life and work of the anthropologist Maurice Bloch.
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15. Jeremy Boissevain
Jeremy Boissevain talks of his education, his move into anthropology and his career. In particular he describes his work in network theory and Malta.
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16. Ursula Graham Bower
An interview with Ursula Graham Bower about her life and work, in particular among the Zemi Nagas and Apa Tanis and other groups in Assam.
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17. David Brokensha
An interview with the anthropologist David Brokensha in Cambridge about his life and work in Africa and America.
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18. Lionel Caplan
Interview of Lionel Caplan, January 2004 concerning his work in Nepal and India and his teaching at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
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19. Pat Caplan
Pat Caplan talks about her early training and fieldwork in Africa and Nepal.
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20. Elizabeth Colson
Interview of Elizabeth Colson at the ASA Diamond Jubilee Conference, and after-dinner talk on the history of anthropology by the same.
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21. Jean and John Comaroff
An interview of the anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff about their life and work.
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22. Philippe Descola
Talk to anthropology seminar at Cambridge University by Philippe Descola on 'Ontologies', followed by questions and discussion.
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23. Mary Douglas
An interview of Mary Douglas the anthropologist in which she talks about her life and work in Africa and elsewhere.
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24. Scarlett Epstein
Interview on the life and work of Scarlett Epstein from her childhood in Vienna, through to her work as an anthropologist and development expert in New Guinea and India.
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25. Stephan Feuchtwang
An interview on the life and work of Stephan Feuchtwang, the anthropologist of China.
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26. Ruth Finnegan
Interview of Ruth Finnegan.
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27. Raymond Firth
Raymond Firth describes his early education in New Zealand, the influence of Malinowski and his fieldwork in Tikopia in the Pacific.
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28. Rosemary Firth
An interview with Rosemary Firth about her arrival in anthropology and fieldwork in Malaya with Raymond Firth.
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29. Robert Foley
An interview of Professor Robert Foley on his life and work.
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30. Meyer Fortes
Meyer Fortes gives a lecture on Tallensi divination before a selected audience of graduates and under-graduates in Cambridge.
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31. Ronald Frankenberg
An interview with Ronald Frankenberg about his training in anthropology, contacts with other anthropologists such as Gluckman, and fieldwork in a Welsh border village.
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32. Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf
A long interview of the many fieldwork projects and books of Professor Haimendorf.
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33. Jean Claude Galey
Seminar and questions with Jean Claude Galey, the director of the Center of South Asian Studies, Paris, on the organization of French academic research, in particular in the social sciences.
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34. Peter Gathercole
An interview about the life and work of Peter Gathercole.
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35. Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz talks of his childhood and education.
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36. Ernest Gellner
Public lecture given in October 1989 by Professor Ernest Gellner.
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37. Jack Goody
Jack Goody describes his education, his time as a prisoner of war in Italy and his later career as a distinguished anthropologist in Cambridge.
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38. Stephen Gudeman
An interview of the economic anthropologist Stephen Gudeman, talking about his life and work.
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39. Philip Gulliver
His life and work in anthropology, first in Africa (East) and later in Ireland.
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40. Chris Hann
An interview of the anthropologist Chris Hann, talking about his life and work.
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41. Keith Hart
Interview of Keith Hart on 12th April 2006 at the Association of Social Anthropologists Conference at Keele University.
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42. Karl Heider
Interview of Karl Heider, American anthropologist.
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43. Michael Herzfeld
A lecture by Professor Michael Herzfeld on 'Eviction and Evocation: The West at Home and Abroad - Ethnographic Reflections from Thailand and Southern Europe'.
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44. Les Hiatt
Interview with Les Hiatt about his training and work as an anthropologist.
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45. Polly Hill
Polly Hills describes her background, the daughter of a Nobel Prize winner and niece of John Maynard Keynes.
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46. Paul Hockings
Interview on the life and work of Paul Hockings in India and in the field of visual anthropology.
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47. Stephen Hugh-Jones
Interview with Stephen Hugh-Jones.
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48. Wendy James
An interview with the anthropologist Wendy James about her life and work.
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49. G.I. Jones
G.I. Jones tells of his childhood, his long service in Nigeria as a colonial officer, his return to Cambridge to teach colonial cadets and other anthropologists.
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50. Jean La Fontaine
An interview of Jean La Fontaine, conducted by Jack Goody.
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51. Bernd Lambert
Interview on the life and work of Bernd Lambert of Cornell University, especially on kinship.
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52. Edmund Leach
Edmund Leach talks of his youth and early years in China.
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53. F.K.Lehman
Chris Lehman describes his family background in Burma.
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54. Godfrey Lienhardt
The Frazer Lecture on the legacy of J.G.Frazer.
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55. Peter Loizos
Interview of Peter Loizos on 14th September 2002.
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56. Lucy Mair
An interview with Lucy Mair covering her early career and introduction to fieldwork.
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57. McKim Marriott
An interview with the American anthropologist McKim Marriott about his life and work, principally in India.
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58. Emanuel Marx
Interview of Emanuel Marx on his work in Israel, the influence of Emrys Peters and others, and his work among the Bedouin of the Sinai Desert.
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59. Adrian Mayer
An interview with Adrian Mayer where he talks about his background and his work in central India and Fiji, and his relations with certain anthropologists.
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60. Iona Mayer
Iona Mayer describes her introduction to anthropology in partnership with Philip Mayer and her realisation of another world beyond her theoretical models.
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61. Philip Mayer
Philip Mayer describes his training as an anthropologist, his work in Africa and contacts with various anthropologists, including Radcliffe-Brown.
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62. Sidney Mintz
Interview with Sidney Mintz on his life and work.
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63. Sally Falk Moore
An interview with the anthropologist Sally Falk Moore.
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64. Chie Nakane
Interview about the life and work of Professor Chie Nakane.
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65. Rodney Needham
An interview with the anthropologist Rodney Needham.
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66. Lilie Nie
Interview of Lilie Nie, a visiting scholar from Tokyo about her life and work in China and Japan.(b. ~1974).
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67. Robert Paine
Robert Paine reviews his life as an anthropologist.
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68. David Parkin
An interview of the social anthropologist David Parkin.
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69. Jonathan Parry
An interview on the life and work of the anthropologist Jonathan Parry.
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70. Paul Rabinow
An interview of the American anthropologist Paul Rabinow about his life and work in Morocco and in the philosophy of anthropology and science studies.
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71. Dan Rabinowitz
A lecture by Dan Rabinowitz on 'The Right to Refuse: Abject Theory and the Return of Palestinian Refugees', and an interview.
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72. Alison Richard
Interview of Alison Richard, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, on her life and work both in administration and as a biological anthropologist.
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73. Audrey Richards
Audrey Richards introduces a discussion.
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74. Peter Riviere
An interview with Peter Riviere.
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75. Malcolm Ruel
Interview on the education, life, work in Africa, teaching in Edinburgh and Cambridge, of Malcolm Ruel.
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76. Anne Salmond
Interview of Anne Salmond on her life and work on the history and anthropology of the Pacific and in particular the Maoris.
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77. James Scott
An interview of the anthropologist and sociologist James Scott and his Mellon Lecture in Cambridge.
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78. David Seddon
An interview on the life and work of the anthropologist and development theorist David Seddon.
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79. Aidan Southall
Interview of Aidan Southall, in which he describes his life, work in Africa and America, and the influences upon him.
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80. M.N. Srinivas
M.N. Srinivas reflects on his research and teaching in India and his role in building up anthropology and sociology.
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81. Marilyn Strathern
An interview on the life and work of the anthropologist Professor Marilyn Strathern.
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82. Stanley Tambiah
Stanley Tambiah talks of his entry into social anthropology through contact with Nur Yalman, Edmund Leach and others.
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83. Tien Ju-kang
Interview of Tien Ju-Kang who talks about the early days of anthropology and sociology in China.
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84. Terry Turner
An interview on the life and work of Terry Turner.
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85. Andrew Vayda
An interview of the anthropologist Dr Andrew Vayda about his life and work.
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86. Piers Vitebsky
A lecture by Piers Vitebsky, a version given at Cambridge in May 2007, the Henry Myers Lecture.
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87. Roy Wagner
Interview on the life and work of the social anthropologist Roy Wagner in Melanesia and elsewhere.
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88. Wang Mingming
An interview of the Chinese anthropologist Wang Mingming about his life and work.
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89. James Woodburn
Interview of James Woodburn about his life and work in anthropology and visual anthropology in Africa and Britain.
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90. Peter Worsley
Peter Worsley talks of his upbringing and education.
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91. Nur Yalman
Nur Yalman describes his background in Turkey, his training in Cambridge and his fieldwork in Ceylon.
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