History, Anthropology and Memory

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Prof Alan Macfarlane (Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, King's College, Cambridge)

 

 

I have been engaged in a project on the borderlands of history, anthropology and memory for three years. I am using family papers and my memories to investigate the 'imagined Empire' of the British, back to seventeenth Jamaica and through India, Burma and China. I have started with my own indoctrination since birth in Assam in1941 and drafted pieces on infancy, prep school years, public school and undergraduate experiences. I would appreciate feed-back on the potentials and difficulties of combining disciplines in the pursuit of the origins and nature of our modern world through the papers and memories of one family.

 

 

 

 

Open to all but spaces are limited: to get on the mailing list and for copies of papers, please email (an379@cam.ac.uk)

Part of the History and Anthropology seminar series.
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