Alan Macfarlane

Creative Lives and Works

Frank Kermode, George Steiner, Gillian Beer and Christopher Ricks
Herausgeber: Béteille, Radha

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 489g
• ISBN-13: 9780367762520
• ISBN-10: 0367762528
• Artikelnr.: 75479805

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I Frank Kermode
In conversation with Alan Macfarlane PART II George Steiner
In conversation with Alan Macfarlane PART III Christopher Ricks
In conversation with Alan Macfarlane PART IV Gillian Beer
In conversation with Alan Macfarlane