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An academic skating on thin ice / Peter Worsley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Worsley, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociologists--England--Biography.
- Sociologists.
- Anthropologists--England--Biography.
- Anthropologists.
- Worsley, Peter.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Peter Worsley's studies at Cambridge were interrupted by war service as a communist officer in the colonial forces in Africa and India, and it was here that he developed a keen interest in anthropology. He work in mass education in Tanganyika and then studied with Max Gluckman at Manchester University. Banned from re-entering Africa, Worsley went to Australia where he was banned once more, this time from New Guinea, yet he did succeed in completing field-research for his Ph.D. on an Australian Aboriginal tribe. His subsequent book on 'Cargo' cults in Melanesia is now regarded as a classic, but
- Contents:
- Title page-An Academic Skating on Thin Ice; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Ch 1-Liverpool, my world; Ch 2-Cambridge and the Army; Ch 3-Peace and the cold war; Ch 4-Australia: Into the lion's den; Ch 5-Out of anthropology, into sociology; Ch 6-Manchester Univrersity; Ch 7-Latin America; Ch 8-Globalisation; Ch 9-London Town; Notes and references
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-281).
- ISBN:
- 9786612627002
- 9781282627000
- 1282627007
- 9780857450647
- 0857450646
- OCLC:
- 645102060
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