Reconstructing Historical Communities
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Reconstructing Historical Communities by Alan Macfarlane
Alan MacFarlane has studied the parishes of Earls Colne in Essex and Kirkby Lonsdale in Cumbria, as well as other parishes, and has undertaken anthropological fieldwork in a contemporary community in Nepal. In collaboration with Sarah Harrison and Charles Jardine he has devised a method of collecting, breaking down and then reintegrating historical records in a way which makes it possible to answer some of the sociological, demographic, anthropological, geographical and other questions which interest many people. For the amateur historian or genealogist who wants to know about a village or family, the method makes it possible to find out almost everything that survives in historical documents concerning each person who lived in a village, each plot of land and house.Alan Macfarlane is a Cambridge Anthropology Professor. He has traveled to Japan several times and taught there. The Glass Bathyscaphe and Japan Through the Looking Glass are his works.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521217965 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521217962 |
| Title | Reconstructing Historical Communities |
| Author | Alan Macfarlane |
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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1977-12-15 |
| Number of pages | 234 |
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