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Alan Macfarlane: Works, Career & Art

Alan Donald James Macfarlane FBA FRHistS (born 20 December 1941) is a British anthropologist and historian, and a Professor Emeritus of King's College, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of 20 books and numerous articles on the anthropology and history of England, Nepal, Japan and China. He has focused on comparative study of the origins and nature of…

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Alan Macfarlane topic overview

The analysis highlights Works, Career and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around Alan Macfarlane.

Related topics: 59
Source areas: 5
Connected nodes: 64
Extracted relationships: 31
Concept neighborhoods: 21
Bridge connections: 64

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Career · 22 topics

Literary works and collaborations · 14 topics

Early life · 9 topics

Publications · 8 topics

Overview · 6 topics

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Key facts & relationships

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Known for: The Origins of English Individualism
Alma mater: Worcester College, University of Oxford (BA, MA, DPhil) London School of Economics and Political Science (MPhil) School of Oriental and African Studies (PhD)
Born: (1941-12-20) 20 December 1941 (age 84) Shillong, Colonial Assam, British India
Doctoral advisor: Keith Thomas
Fields: Anthropology History
Thesis: Witchcraft prosecutions in Essex, 1560–1680 (1967)

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Overview

Fellow of the British Academy
FRHistS Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Professor Emeritus
King's College, Cambridge
Anthropology
Nepal

Early life

Career

Dragon School, Oxford
Sedbergh School
Worcester College, University of Oxford Worcester College, Oxford
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Master of Philosophy
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
Emeritus professor
University of Cambridge
Royal Anthropological Institute Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Witchcraft
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Edward Evans-Pritchard
Lucy Mair
Ralph Josselin
Annales School
Gurung
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Malthus
Lawrence Stone
Max Weber
Malthusian trap

Literary works and collaborations

Enlightenment Age of Enlightenment
Montesquieu
Adam Smith
Alexis de Tocqueville
Ernest Gellner
Yukichi Fukuzawa Fukuzawa Yukichi
Frederic Maitland Frederic William Maitland
Bathyscaphe
Gerry Martin Gerry Martin?action=edit&redlink=1
Relativism
Mark Turin
Digital Himalaya
World Oral Literature Project
The Fortnightly Review

Publications

ISBN ISBN (identifier)
Indrabahadur Gurung Indrabahadur Gurung?action=edit&redlink=1
ASIN Amazon Standard Identification Number
Wayback Machine
James Bruce Lockhart
Bernard Pignede Bernard Pignede?action=edit&redlink=1
Anita Herle Anita Herle?action=edit&redlink=1
Patricia McGuire

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How Alan Macfarlane connects Entity context

The extracted context around Alan Macfarlane shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Alan Macfarlane → Capitalism, Culture, English Historical Continuity, English Individualism, History Workshop Journal, Keith, March, Modernization, No, October, Pre-Modern England, Richard, Snell, Social History, Stephen, The Invention, The Work, Vann, Vol Another extracted example is Alan Macfarlane → Internet Archive, Macfarlane, Official, YouTubeWorks. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Alan Macfarlane

Top relations

related to Further reading · 19

Alan Macfarlane → Capitalism, Culture, English Historical Continuity, English Individualism, History Workshop Journal, Keith, March, Modernization, No, October, Pre-Modern England, Richard, Snell, Social History, Stephen, The Invention, The Work, Vann, Vol

related to External links · 4

Alan Macfarlane → Internet Archive, Macfarlane, Official, YouTubeWorks

Alma mater · 1

Alan Macfarlane → Worcester College, University of Oxford (BA, MA, DPhil) London School of Economics and Political Science (MPhil) School of Oriental and African Studies (PhD)

Born · 1

Alan Macfarlane → (1941-12-20) 20 December 1941 (age 84) Shillong, Colonial Assam, British India

Doctoral advisor · 1

Alan Macfarlane → Keith Thomas

Fields · 1

Alan Macfarlane → Anthropology History

Known for · 1

Alan Macfarlane → The Origins of English Individualism

Thesis · 1

Alan Macfarlane → Witchcraft prosecutions in Essex, 1560–1680 (1967)

Website · 1

Alan Macfarlane → alanmacfarlane.com

Workplaces · 1

Alan Macfarlane → King's College, University of Cambridge

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Important terminology

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Alan Macfarlane relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 31 structured relationships around Alan Macfarlane. Examples in this analysis include Alan Macfarlane → Alma mater → Worcester College, University of Oxford (BA, MA, DPhil) London School of Economics and Political Science (MPhil) School of Oriental and African Studies (PhD) and Alan Macfarlane → Born → (1941-12-20) 20 December 1941 (age 84) Shillong, Colonial Assam, British India. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

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Alan Macfarlane	Alma mater	Worcester College, University of Oxford (BA, MA, DPhil) London School of Economics and Political Science (MPhil) School of Oriental and African Studies (PhD)	1.00	infobox
Alan Macfarlane	Born	(1941-12-20) 20 December 1941 (age 84) Shillong, Colonial Assam, British India	1.00	infobox
Alan Macfarlane	Doctoral advisor	Keith Thomas	1.00	infobox
Alan Macfarlane	Fields	Anthropology History	1.00	infobox
Alan Macfarlane	Known for	The Origins of English Individualism	1.00	infobox
Alan Macfarlane	Thesis	Witchcraft prosecutions in Essex, 1560–1680 (1967)	1.00	infobox
Alan Macfarlane	Website	alanmacfarlane.com	1.00	infobox
Alan Macfarlane	Workplaces	King's College, University of Cambridge	1.00	infobox
Alan Macfarlane	related to External links	Official	0.60	section
Alan Macfarlane	related to External links	Macfarlane	0.60	section
Alan Macfarlane	related to External links	YouTubeWorks	0.60	section
Alan Macfarlane	related to External links	Internet Archive	0.60	section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Alan Macfarlane bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Work, Research and School. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Alan Macfarlane, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Alan Macfarlane with Career. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

Alan Macfarlane — Career · splits 42 ⟂ 23

Alan Macfarlane — Literary works and collaborations · splits 50 ⟂ 15

Alan Macfarlane — Early life · splits 55 ⟂ 10

Alan Macfarlane — Publications · splits 56 ⟂ 9

Alan Macfarlane — Overview · splits 58 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

Alan Macfarlane

Nodes65

Edges64

Triples31

Avg. degree1.97

Density0.030769

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Alan Macfarlane to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works, Career & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Alan Macfarlane · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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