Alan Macfarlane

Alan Macfarlane is Professor of Anthropology at Cambridge. He has often visited and taught in Japan. He is the author of The Glass Bathyscaphe and Japan Through the Looking Glass.

Ebooks

Green Gold: The Empire of Tea

The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the World

Historical Ethnography and Peasant Societies: McKim Marriott, James Scott and Maurice Bloch

Imperialism and Colonialism: Christopher Bayly, Richard Rathbone and Richard Drayton

Creative Lives and Works: Frank Kermode, George Steiner, Gillian Beer and Christopher Ricks

Of Poverty and Wealth: Eric Hobsbawm, Barry Supple and Gareth Stedman Jones

Letters To Lily: On how the world works

Science and Culture: Lisa Jardine, Jean Michel Massing and Simon Schaffer

Law and Justice: Thomas Bingham, Nicholas Phillips and Eleanor Sharpston

The Science of Life: Andrew Huxley, Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow

Creative Lives and Works: Antony Hewish, Martin Rees and Neil Turok

Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: Edition 2

Cambridge Anthropology: Preliminary Notes

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

Science and Religion: Edwin Salpeter, Owen Gingerich and John Polkinghorne

Japan Through the Looking Glass

From Antiquity to Ethnography: Keith Thomas, Brian Harrison and Peter Burke

History, Culture and Ethnography: Jack Goody, Clifford James Geertz and Phillippe Descola