Alan MacFarlane, Social Anthropology, King's College, University of Cambridge
| DATE: | Friday, October 7, 2005 |
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| TIME: | 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM |
| PLACE: | O'Neill Rm, Faculty Club |
| FORMAT: | Seminar |
| SPONSORS: | Center for Japanese Studies |
In conjunction with: Alan MacFarlane's October 6 Maruyama Lecture,"Fukuzawa Yukichi and Maruyama Masao: Two Visions of Japan."
The Maruyama Lectures are named in honour of the late Maruyama Masao (1914-96), historian of East Asian political thought and one of the most influential political thinkers in twentieth-century Japan. Sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies, the series brings to the university important scholars and thinkers who will offer reflections on the problem of political engagement and responsibility in modern times, which was the central and overriding concern in Maruyama's work. This series is supported by a grant from the Konishi Foundation for International Exchange, Tokyo.
On October 6-7 (Thursday-Friday), Alan MacFarlane, Professor of Social Anthropology at King's College, University of Cambridge will offer the 5th Maruyama Lecture and Seminar.
Alan Macfarlane was born in Assam, India, in 1941. He gained doctorates in history (Oxford, 1967) and anthropology (London, 1972) and has taught at the University of Cambridge since 1971. He became a Fellow of King's College in 1981, the British Academy in 1986 and Professor of Anthropological Science in 1991. He has given the Frazer, Malinowski and Marrett Lectures in Britain, the Silver Jubilee Guest Lecture at the Delhi School of Economics, and is the Sir Li Ka-Sheng distinguished lecturer in China in 2005. He has taught at the University of Tokyo and lectured at a number of Japanese universities.
He has undertaken extensive historical and anthropological work in England, Nagaland, Nepal, Japan and China. Among his fifteen published books are: Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England (1970); The Origins of English Individualism (1978); Marriage and Love in England (1986); The Culture of Capitalism (1987); The Savage Wars of Peace - England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap (1997); The Riddle of the Modern World (2000); The Making of the Modern World (2002 - on F.W.Maitland and Fukuzawa Yukichi); Glass: A World History (2002, with G.Martin); Letters to Lily - On How the World Works (2005).
His website contains interviews of sixty leading academics and thinkers, films from around the world, and various historical and anthropological databases and sets of writings.
Reservation required: 510.642.3156 or cjs@berkeley.edu
