| Description |
1 online resource (296 pages) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Worsley, Peter
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| SUBJECT |
Worsley, Peter. swd |
| Subject |
Sociologists -- England -- Biography
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Anthropologists -- England -- Biography
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Anthropologists
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Sociologists
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008008518 |
| ISBN |
9780857450647 |
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0857450646 |
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