An academic skating on thin ice [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Worsley
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| Autore: |
Worsley Peter
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| Titolo: |
An academic skating on thin ice [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Worsley
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Berghahn Books, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 301.092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sociologists - England |
| Anthropologists - England | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-281). |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | An academic skating on thin ice |
| ISBN: | 1-282-62700-7 |
| 9786612627002 | |
| 0-85745-064-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910791240603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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