These lectures were presented by Alan MacFarlane in November 2001 in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. They were part of a course on theory and methods in anthropology designed for second year social anthropology undergraduates.
Lecture 1: A Map of Social Theories, 1000-2000
Lecture 2: The Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Lecture 3: Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Lecture 4: Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
Lecture 5: Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Lecture 6: Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
Lecture 7: Max Weber (1864-1920)
Lecture 8: Ernest Gellner (1925-1995)
Lecture 9: F.W.Maitland (1850-1906)
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