02583nam 2200577 a 450 991081611130332120200520144314.01-282-62700-797866126270020-85745-064-610.1515/9780857450647(CKB)2560000000012210(EBL)544436(OCoLC)645102060(SSID)ssj0000431831(PQKBManifestationID)12172975(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431831(PQKBWorkID)10476533(PQKB)10072062(MiAaPQ)EBC544436(DE-B1597)636934(DE-B1597)9780857450647(EXLCZ)99256000000001221020080226d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAn academic skating on thin ice /Peter WorsleyNew York Berghahn Booksc20081 online resource (296 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84545-370-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-281).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 referencesPeter 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, butSociologistsEnglandBiographyAnthropologistsEnglandBiographySociologistsAnthropologists301.092BWorsley Peter124228MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816111303321An academic skating on thin ice4031072UNINA