Letters to Lily: On How the World Works

Alan Macfarlane is an anthropologist; Lily his inquisitive granddaughter, constantly asks him questions about how the world works. In this book he provides her with some answers in a series of thirty letters. His answers range through history and across the world's cultures, from the personal to the [...]
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Alan Macfarlane is an anthropologist; Lily his inquisitive granddaughter, constantly asks him questions about how the world works. In this book he provides her with some answers in a series of thirty letters. His answers range through history and across the world's cultures, from the personal to the philosophical to the political.