Becoming a Dragon: Dragon School, Oxford, 1950-1955 - Softcover

Macfarlane, Prof Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1492188301 ISBN 13: 9781492188308

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

This book describes life at an English preparatory boarding school, the Dragon School, Oxford, between 1949 and 1955. Based on letters written from the school by Alan Macfarlane, and using other letters from his mother, school reports, photographs and school magazines, it examines the school through the eyes of one pupil. It is taken from the longer and full account, ‘Dragon Days’ written by Jamie Bruce Lockhart and Alan Macfarlane, which is also available. These are complemented by accounts of home life in Alan Macfarlane's ‘Dorset Days’ and Jamie Bruce Lockhart's ‘Different Days’. Alan Macfarlane was born in India in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School and Sedbergh School, Yorkshire. He received his M.A. and D.Phil. in history from Oxford, an M.Phil. in anthropology at the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies. Elected a Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge in 1971 and a Lecturer in Social Anthropology in 1975, a Reader in 1981, and Professor in 1991, he was elected to the British Academy in 1986. He is Emeritus Professor at Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King's College. Half the royalties from sales are donated to the Dragon School Archives fund.

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About the Author:

Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Sedbergh School, Oxford and London Universities. He is the author of over twenty books, including The Origins of English Individualism (1978) and Letters to Lily: On How the World Works (2005). He has worked in England, Nepal, Japan and China as both an historian and anthropologist. He was elected to the British Academy in 1986 and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1492188301
• ISBN 13: 9781492188308
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 281