Alan MacFarlane#
| Membership Number: | 755 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.alanmacfarlane.com http://www.youtube.com/user/ayabaya |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2009 Life Fellow
- Since 2009 Emeritus Professor
- 1981-2009 Fellow, King's College, Cambridge
- 1991-2009 Professor of Anthropological Science, University of Cambridge
- 1981-1991 Reader in Historical Anthropology, University of Cambridge
- 1975-1981 University Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Cambridge
- 1971-1974 Senior Research Fellow in History, King's College, Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Social Anthropology
- History of England, Nepal, Japan and China
- Comparative studies of the origins and nature of the modern world
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Honorary Vice-President, 2002-2005)
- Fellow of the British Academy (1986)
- Fellow of Academia Europaea (1990)
- International Who's Who (1989)
- Rivers Memorial Medal for Anthropological Fieldwork, Royal Anthropological Institutute (1984)
- William J. Goode medal of the American Sociological Association (1987)
- Huxley Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2012)
