Alan MacFarlane - Biography#

Education: Dragon School, Sedbergh, Worcester College, Oxford (MA, D.Phil), L.S.E. (M.Phil.), SOAS (Ph.D.)

Career: University of Cambridge: lecturer in social anthropology 1975-81, reader in historical anthropology 1981, professor of anthropological science 1991-2009; Emeritus Professor 2009 on; King's College, Cambridge: senior research fellow in history, 1971-74; Fellow 1981-2009; Life Fellow 2009 on.

Recreations: gardening, second-hand book hunting, walking, filming.