Alan Macfarlane is Professor of Anthropological Science at the University of Cambridge, UK.

He has been involved in a number of multimedia projects, including the Naga Videodisc and the BBC Domesday Disc. Digital Himalaya takes these long-standing interests into the digital era. Click here to view Alan Macfarlane's own website.

He divides his time between his Cambridge office and the Gurung village of Thak, located in central-western Nepal. He first visited Thak in 1969, staying for 15 months, and along with his wife Sarah he has been returning to Thak annually since 1986. Together they have created the Thak archive, which includes several thousand photographs, over a hundred hours of film, and yearly census data, making it one of the richest ethno-historical databanks existing for the Himalayan region.

His published works cover English social history, demography in Nepal, and the industrial history of both England and Japan.