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An Academic Skating on Thin Ice / Peter Worsley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845453701
  • 9780857450647
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.092
LOC classification:
  • HM479 .W67 A3 2008
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 Liverpool, My World -- CHAPTER 2 Cambridge and the Army -- CHAPTER 3 Peace and the Cold War -- CHAPTER 4 Australia: Into the Lion’s Den -- CHAPTER 5 Out of Anthropology, into Sociology -- CHAPTER 6 Manchester University: Upheaval -- CHAPTER 7 Latin America -- CHAPTER 8 Globalisation -- CHAPTER 9 London Town -- Notes and References
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 his left-wing politics ensured that he could not get a job in anthropology, so he switched to sociology, on his return to Manchester.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 Liverpool, My World -- CHAPTER 2 Cambridge and the Army -- CHAPTER 3 Peace and the Cold War -- CHAPTER 4 Australia: Into the Lion’s Den -- CHAPTER 5 Out of Anthropology, into Sociology -- CHAPTER 6 Manchester University: Upheaval -- CHAPTER 7 Latin America -- CHAPTER 8 Globalisation -- CHAPTER 9 London Town -- Notes and References

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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 his left-wing politics ensured that he could not get a job in anthropology, so he switched to sociology, on his return to Manchester.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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