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1st Edition

The Science of Life Andrew Huxley, Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow

By Alan Macfarlane Copyright 2023
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge
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The Science of Life: Andrew Huxley, Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow is part of the series Creative Lives and Works . It is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of 40 years, the three conversations in this volume are part of a larger set of interviews that cut across various... Read more

Note on Transcription

Radha Béteille

Introduction

Alan Macfarlane

PART I

Andrew Fielding Huxley – In conversation with Alan Macfarlane

PART II

Richard Keynes – In conversation with Alan Macfarlane

PART III

Horace Barlow – In conversation with Alan Macfarlane

Biography

Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Sedbergh School, Oxford and London Universities where he received two Master's degrees and two doctorates. He is the author of over forty books, including The Origins of English Individualism (1978) and Letters to Lily: On How the World Works (2005). He has worked in England, Nepal, Japan and China as both an historian and anthropologist. He was elected to the British Academy in 1986 and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Professor Macfarlane received the Huxley Memorial Medal, the highest honour of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2012.

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