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Alan Macfarlane Biography

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Alan Macfarlane is a distinguished British historian and sociologist, born on December 20, 1941. He is recognized for his extensive work in the fields of social history and the history of the family.

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“We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance is almost invisible to us. To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus, to stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder.”

Source: The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the World

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Born: December 20, 1941
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