!!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. \\ \\