Alan Macfarlane

How to Discover the World - Reflections for Rosa Alan Macfarlane

I have spent the last sixty years trying to understand the world. I have studied for two doctorates at Oxford and London and travelled through Nepal, Japan and China. Here I will describe what I have found about asking questions, guessing, testing, assembling evidence, creative writing and the conditions of creativity. Alan Macfarlane, F. B. A., is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Cambridge University and a Life Fellow of King's College. His website is alanmacfarlane.com