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53 minute video on doing fieldwork

Narrated by Alan Macfarlane, Professor of Anthropological Science at the University of Cambridge, this 53-minute film takes ...
All University of Cambridge Videos   21 June 2006    Add to my PlaylistEmail this video

Clocks and other medieval machines including mills

Nine lectures for second year Cambridge social anthropology students, given in November 2001 by Alan Macfarlane and filmed by...
All University of Cambridge Videos   26 November 2005    Add to my PlaylistEmail this video

Clocks and their discovery

Nine lectures for second year Cambridge social anthropology students, given in November 2001 by Alan Macfarlane and filmed by...
All University of Cambridge Videos   26 November 2005    Add to my PlaylistEmail this video

The spread of mechanical clocks

A talk for one hour, and then questions and discussion for one hour, chaired by Alan Macfarlane. First half of the film of an...
All University of Cambridge Videos   23 November 2005    Add to my PlaylistEmail this video

Why did the Europeans conquer the New World and not the other way around?

A 50 minute film, made by Windfall Films and shown on Channel 4 television in 2000. In answer to David Dugan, Joel Mokyr refl...
All University of Cambridge Videos   23 November 2005    Add to my PlaylistEmail this video

Why Japanese weapons failed to develop

A 50 minute film, made by Windfall Films and shown on Channel 4 television in 2000. Filmed in the vaults of the great Japanes...
All University of Cambridge Videos   23 November 2005    Add to my PlaylistEmail this video

'A Community of Critics', Huxley Lecture 2004

Lecture by Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern given at University College, London, on 8th December 2004, filmed by Alan Macfarl...
All University of Cambridge Videos   30 August 2005    Add to my PlaylistEmail this video

The complex logistics of eighteenth and nineteenth century warfare

Lecture by Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern given at University College, London, on 8th December 2004, filmed by Alan Macfarl...
All University of Cambridge Videos   30 August 2005    Add to my PlaylistEmail this video

Water, mills and the origins of capitalism; the role of the Benedictines

a test For a long period, from the early seventeenth century onwards, Japan kept out all foreign traders. Only on the tiny i...
All University of Cambridge Videos   24 August 2005    Add to my PlaylistEmail this video

What made Stephenson's Rocket steam engine special

Alan Macfarlane compares two solutions to the production of wealth; working harder with the human body (an industrious revol...
All University of Cambridge Videos   24 August 2005    Add to my PlaylistEmail this video