Background
MacFarlane, Alan Donald was born on December 20, 1941 in Shillong, Assam, India. Son of Donald Kennedy and Iris Stirling (Rhodes-James) MacF. arrived in England, 1946.
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This is a classic regional and comparative study of early modern witchcraft. The history of witchcraft continues to attract attention with its emotive and contentious debates. The methodology and conclusions of this book have impacted not only on witchcraft studies but the entire approach to social and cultural history with its quantitative and anthropological approach. The book provides an important case study on Essex as well as drawing comparisons with other regions of early modern England. The second edition of this classic work adds a new historiographical introduction, placing the book in context today.
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In many areas of the world destruction of natural resources and the rapid growth of populaton are among the most important problems facing individuals and governments. This book, first published in 1976, utilises the tools of social anthropology and population studies in an attempt to see some of the causes and consequences of populations growth and some of the effects of change on natural resources. It analyses a particular 'community' in the Annapurna range of the central Himalayas during this century, and investigates how the destruction of forests and the growth of settled rice cultivation have occurred, and some of the consequences. The Gurungs are famous as recruits to the Gurkha regiments of the British and Indian armies, and the demographic and economic effects of foreign mercenary labour are among the topics examined.
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'Will stimulate work and thought rather than impose a new orthodoxy. The combination of bold iconoclasm with judicious questioning gives the book an excitement unparalleled in recent English historiography. It is an extraordinarily invigorating blast of fresh air.' History.
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Witchcraft in 16th- and 17th-century England! Witchcraft beliefs and accusations flourished as never before in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. This study of some of the least-explored regions of post-Reformation society investigates the categories of persons that were believed to be witches and considers the motives of their accusers. The author, a highly regarded anthropologist-historian, examines the extent to which witchcraft accusations reflected basic tensions in the structure of pre- industrial thought and society, and directs light on such issues as contemporary attitudes to misfortune and pain, to methods of resolving interpersonal conflicts, to the treatment of social deviants.
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MacFarlane, Alan Donald was born on December 20, 1941 in Shillong, Assam, India. Son of Donald Kennedy and Iris Stirling (Rhodes-James) MacF. arrived in England, 1946.
Bachelor, Oxford (England) University, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford (England) University, 1967; Master of Philosophy, London School Economics, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, London U., 1971.
Senior research fellow, Cambridge (England) University, 1971-1974; social anthropology lecturer, Cambridge (England) University, 1975-1981; reader in anthropology, Cambridge (England) University, 1981-1991; professor anthropology, Cambridge (England) University, since 1991; fellow King's College, Cambridge (England) University, since 1981.
(In many areas of the world destruction of natural resourc...)
(Witchcraft in 16th- and 17th-century England! Witchcraft ...)
(This is a classic regional and comparative study of early...)
('Will stimulate work and thought rather than impose a new...)
Trustee Tom Harrison Mass Observation Archive, Sussex, since 1990. Member Royal Anthropol. Institute (Rivers Memorial medal for anthropology 1984), Royal History Society, British Academy.
Married Gillian B. Ions, December 20, 1965 (divorced 1974). 1 child, Kate; married Sarah Jordan Harrison. Children: Inge, Astrid.