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Autore |
Worsley Peter |
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Titolo |
An academic skating on thin ice / / Peter Worsley |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-62700-7 |
9786612627002 |
0-85745-064-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sociologists - England |
Anthropologists - England |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-281). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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