Invention of the Modern World (by Alan Macfarlane, March 2011)

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source: ayabaya   Last updated on 2014年5月27日
A set of seventeen short lectures given at Tsinghua University, Beijing, in March 2011, by Alan Macfarlane. These are the Wang Gouwei lectures. All credits and thanks are on the films. For further background, as well as a higher quality, downloadable, version, along with downloadable text of the lecture (up quite soon) please see under 'Lectures' on www.alanmacfarlane.com

(1/17): What is the question? 35:11
(2/17): War, Trade and Empire 34:02
(3/17): Technology of Production 32:34
(4/17): Capitalism, Money & Markets and the Development of the Modern world 39:26
(5/17): Material Life and Demography 39:26
(6/17): Universities and Science 29:14
(7/17): Caste and Class 44:09
(8/17): Invention of the Modern World: Games, sport and hobbies 29:47
(9/17): Invention of the Modern World: Friendship and kinship 41:26
(10/17): Associations, Trust and Civil Society in the Growth of Modernity 30:20
(11/17): Power, Bureaucracy and Politics in the Making of the Modern world 35:23
(12/17): Law and Violence in the Making of the Modern World 28:50
(13/17): Educational systems and language systems in England over time 39:11
(14/17): Myths of unity and national identity in modern nations 27:10
(15/17): The origins of modern religion and ethics in a divided world. 24:37
(16/17): English Character and Personality - The peculiarity of the English 24:54
(17/17): Why and how the modern world emerged 24:25

Cosmologies of Capitalism by Alan Macfarlane (1982/2012)

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source: ayabaya    Last updated on 2012年12月29日
Theoretical Systems in the Social Sciences: Nature and Origins. (Originally written in 1982, filmed in 2012 by Alan Macfarlane).

COSMOLOGIES OF CAPITALISM. Lecture 1/15 35:34
COSMOLOGIES OF CAPITALISM: 2/15 55:58
COSMOLOGIES OF CAPITALISM 3/15 29:12
COSMOLOGIES OF CAPITALISM 4/15 25:17
COSMOLOGIES OF CAPITALISM 5/15 24:55
COSMOLOGIES OF CAPITALISM 6/15 55:23
COSMOLOGIES OF CAPITALISM 7/15 35:48
COSMOLOGIES OF CAPITALISM 8/15 24:25
COSMOLOGIES OF CAPITALISM 9/15 38:21
COSMOLOGIES OF CAPITALISM 10/15 46:11
COSMOLOGIES OF CAPITALISM 11/15 52:46
COSMOLOGIES OF CAPITALISM 12/15 50:31
COSMOLOGIES OF CAPITALISM 13/15 1:01:04
COSMOLOGIES OF CAPITALISM 14/15 31:36
COSMOLOGIES OF CAPITALISM 15/15 54:55

Anthropology - what is it? (by Alan Macfarlane)

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source: ayabaya   Last updated on 2014年6月19日
What is social anthropology; what do social anthropologists do and think and work? Please see www.alanmacfarlane.com for the context and further films.

What is social anthropology? 24:10
Anthropological fieldwork; a personal account in Nepal 56:03
Anthropological fieldwork in a Gurung village 11:19
Introduction to anthropology (1): Types of Society 44:50
Introduction to anthropology (2): Themes and topics 48:29
Reflections on anthropological fieldwork filming in the Himalayas 1:01:05

How to survive; war, famine and disease (by Alan Macfarlane in 2006/7)

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source: ayabaya     Last updated on 2011年7月16日
Three lectures, split into 7 parts, on the history and nature of population growth, war, famine and disease, given to first year Cambridge undergraduates studying Archaeology and Anthropology in 2006-7.

Famine - its consequences and causes 25:42
What are the effects of war, and has it declined? 21:30
Dysentery - dreadful effects of and causes for decline 20:23
Malaria - effects and causes of decline 36:59
The modern rise in population - why? 11:59
A framework for understanding how disease works 8:56
The Malthusian framework for understanding history 33:16