An Academic Skating on Thin Ice
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An Academic Skating on Thin Ice

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
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An Academic Skating on Thin Ice

About this book

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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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9780857450647
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Title page-An Academic Skating on Thin Ice
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Ch 1-Liverpool, my world
  7. Ch 2-Cambridge and the Army
  8. Ch 3-Peace and the cold war
  9. Ch 4-Australia: Into the lion's den
  10. Ch 5-Out of anthropology, into sociology
  11. Ch 6-Manchester Univrersity
  12. Ch 7-Latin America
  13. Ch 8-Globalisation
  14. Ch 9-London Town
  15. Notes and references

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