艾伦·麦克法兰（, ）是一位英国人类学家和历史学家。皇家历史学会、人类学会会士。

生平
1941年出生于英属印度的一个英国茶种植园的家庭，毕业于龙学校，1963年毕业于牛津大学伍斯特学院，1967年凭借论文'Witchcraft prosecutions in Essex, 1560–1680: A Sociological Analysis '获得哲学博士，1968年凭借论文'The regulation of marital and sexual relationships in 17th century England'获得伦敦政治经济学院人类学硕士学位，1972年凭借论文'Population and resources in central Nepal'获得伦敦大学亚非学院博士学位。之后任职于剑桥大学国王学院，1991年升任为正教授，2009年成为终身荣誉教授。

著作
Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: A Regional and Comparative Study, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abingdon-on-Thames, 1970, 334 p.  (second edition, Routledge, 1999, 380 p.)
The Family Life of Ralph Josselin: A Seventeenth Century Clergyman - An Essay in Historical Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, 1970, 241 p. 
Resources and Population: A Study of the Gurungs of Nepal, Cambridge University Press, 1976, 382 p. 
Reconstructing Historical Communities in collaboration with Sarah Harrison and Charles Jardine, Cambridge University Press, 1977, 222 p. 
The Origins of English Individualism: The Family, Property and Social Transition, Blackwell, Oxford, 1978, 236 p.  (translated in Portuguese, Japanese, Hungarian, and Chinese)
The Justice and the Mare's Ale: Law and Disorder in Seventeenth-century England with Sarah Harrison, Blackwell, Oxford 1981, 238 p. 
A Guide to English Historical Records, Cambridge University Press, 1983, 134 p. 
Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction 1300-1840, Blackwell, Oxford, 1986, 320 p. 
The Culture of Capitalism, Blackwell, Oxford, 1987, 272 p.  (translated in Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish, and Turkish)
The Diary of Ralph Josselin: 1616-1683, Oxford University Press, 1991, 752 p. 
Gurungs of Nepal: A Guide to the Gurungs with Indrabahadur Gurung, Ratna Pustak Bhandar, Kathmandu, 1992, 74 p.  (the text can found on the author's website )
The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap, Blackwell, Oxford, 1997, 448 p.  (a full version is available  on the author's website ) (translated in Japan in 2001)
The Riddle of the Modern World: Of Liberty, Wealth and Equality, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2000, 344 p. 
The Making of the Modern World: Visions from the West and East, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2002, 336 p. 
The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the World with Gerry Martin, Profile Books, London, 2002, 305 p. (three editions)    (published in the USA as Glass : A World History, University of Chicago Press, 2002, 288 p. ) (translated in Italian, Chinese, German, Spanish, and Chinese (complex))
Green Gold: The Empire of Tea with Iris Macfarlane, Ebury Press, London, 2003, 320 p.  (translated in Italian, Spanish, Chinese (complex), and Japanese)
Letters To Lily: On How the World Works, Profile Books, London, 2006, 320 p.    (translated in Korean, Japanese, Finnish, Norwegian (Swedish, Danish), Chinese (complex), Chinese, Slovenian, and Hungarian)
Japan Through the Looking Glass: Shaman to Shinto, Profile Books, London, 2007, 288 p.    (translated in French, Finnish, Italian, and Chinese)
Reflections on Cambridge, Social Science Press, New Delhi, 2009, 243 p.    (translated in Chinese)
The Invention of the Modern World, Odd Volumes (The Fortnightly Review, New Series), London, 2014, 334 p. 
China, Japan, Europe and the Anglo-sphere, A Comparative Analysis, Cambridge Rivers Publishing, Cambridge, April 2018, 258 p. 
Dragon Days: The Dragon School, Oxford, 1949-1955, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2013, with James Bruce Lockhart 

As editor The Gurungs: A Himalayan Population of Nepal by Bernard Pignede with Sarah Harrison, Ratna Pustak Bhandar, Kathmandu, 1993, 523 p.  
As contributor The Nagas: Hill Peoples of Northeast India - Society, Culture and the Colonial Encounter by Julian Jacobs with Sarah Harrison and Anita Herle, Thames and Hudson, London, 1990, 356 p.

现代思想家丛书
Yukichi Fukazawa and the Making of the Modern World, 2002, 97 p. (the text is available on this page )
F.W. Maitland and the Making of the Modern World, 2002, 102 p. (the text is available on this page )
Thomas Malthus and the Making of the Modern World, 2002, 138 p. (the text is available on this page )
Montesquieu and the Making of the Modern World, 2013, 55 p. (the text is available on this page )
Alexis de Tocqueville and the Making of the Modern World, 2013, 92 p. (the text is available on this page )
Adam Smith and the Making of the Modern World, 2013, 69 p. (the text is available on this page )
Four Approaches to the Making of the Modern World, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Silicon Valley 2018, 110 p.

我们如何理解世界丛书
How to Discover the World -  Reflections for Rosa, Cambridge Rivers Publishing, Cambridge, Mars 2018, 96 p.  (translated in Chinese)
How To Understand Each Other - Notes for Nina, Cambridge Rivers Publishing, Cambridge, Mars 2018, 96 p.  (translated in Chinese)
Intelligent Machines - Conversations with Gerry, Cambridge Rivers Publishing, Cambridge, Mars 2018, 192 p. 
Learning to be Modern - Jottings for James, Cam Rivers Publishing, Cambridge, Mars 2018, 88 p. 
A Modern Education - Advice for Ariston, Cam Rivers Publishing, Cambridge, Mars 2018, 168 p. 
How Do We Know - Advice for April, Cambridge Rivers Publishing, Cambridge, Mars 2018, 136 p.  (translated in Chinese)
How To Investigate Mysteries - Secrets for Sam, Cambridge Rivers Publishing, Cambridge, Mars 2018, 84 p.  (translated in Chinese)
How to Study the World - Suggestions for Shuo, Cambridge Rivers Publishing, Cambridge, April 2018, 120 p.  (translated in Chinese)
How Can We Survive - Thoughts for Taras, Cambridge Rivers Publishing, Cambridge, April 2018, 124 p.  (translated in Chinese)

其他论文
Encounters with Japan and the Japanese, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Silicon Valley, 2013, 256 p. 
King's College Cambridge, a personal view with Patricia McGuire, Cambridge Rivers Publishing, Cambridge, July 2018, 56 p. 
 (unpublished) Robert Chambers of Edinburgh as 'assistant' of Iris Macfarlane available on the author's own site 
As editor The Education of Iris Macfarlane 1922-1939 by Iris Macfarlane, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Silicon Valley, July 2018, 234 p.  (the text is available on this page )

精选讲座 
 Family, Marriage and Kinship - How They Work (1983) 
 Lectures on Great Social Thinkers (2001)

参考来源

延伸阅读
 Snell, Keith D. M., "English Historical Continuity and the Culture of Capitalism: the Work of Alan Macfarlane" , History Workshop Journal, Vol. 27, No. 1 (March 1989), pp. 154–163
 White, Stephen D., and Vann, Richard T., "The Invention of English Individualism: Alan Macfarlane and the Modernization of Pre‐Modern England" , Social History, Vol. 8, No. 3 (October 1983), pp. 345–363

外部链接
Alan Macfarlane's homepage 
Alan Macfarlane's YouTube account 

英国人类学家
英国历史学家
剑桥大学教师
牛津大学伍斯特学院校友
伦敦大学亚非学院校友
伦敦政治经济学院校友
英国国家学术院院士
皇家历史学会会士
龙校校友