Reconstructing Historical Communities

by Alan Macfarlane

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521088135
• ISBN13: 9780521088138
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"