In this episode of the Inspire Us Podcast, we sit down with world-renowned anthropologist and historian Alan Macfarlane for a wide-ranging conversation on modernity, China, Japan, and the West’s misconceptions about development and progress.Born on the India-Burma border during WWII and trained in the great tradition of fieldwork anthropology, Macfarlane reflects on his lifelong journey through cultures, worldviews, and civilizations. He challenges the Western idea of a single path to modernity and offers a powerful rethinking of what it means to be “developed.”