An Academic Skating on Thin Ice /
Worsley, Peter
An Academic Skating on Thin Ice / Peter Worsley. - 1 online resource (296 p.)
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.
9781845453701 9780857450647
10.1515/9780857450647 doi
Anthropologists--England--Biography.
Sociologists--England--Biography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Anthropology (General), Sociology.
HM479 .W67 A3 2008
301.092
An Academic Skating on Thin Ice / Peter Worsley. - 1 online resource (296 p.)
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
9781845453701 9780857450647
10.1515/9780857450647 doi
Anthropologists--England--Biography.
Sociologists--England--Biography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Anthropology (General), Sociology.
HM479 .W67 A3 2008
301.092