LEADER 02592nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910791240603321 005 20230721012139.0 010 $a1-282-62700-7 010 $a9786612627002 010 $a0-85745-064-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780857450647 035 $a(CKB)2560000000012210 035 $a(EBL)544436 035 $a(OCoLC)645102060 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000431831 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12172975 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431831 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10476533 035 $a(PQKB)10072062 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC544436 035 $a(DE-B1597)636934 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780857450647 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000012210 100 $a20080226d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 13$aAn academic skating on thin ice$b[electronic resource] /$fPeter Worsley 210 $aNew York $cBerghahn Books$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84545-370-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [275]-281). 327 $aTitle 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 330 $aPeter 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 606 $aSociologists$zEngland$vBiography 606 $aAnthropologists$zEngland$vBiography 615 0$aSociologists 615 0$aAnthropologists 676 $a301.092 700 $aWorsley$b Peter$0124228 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791240603321 996 $aAn academic skating on thin ice$93762742 997 $aUNINA