An Academic Skating on Thin Ice / / Peter Worsley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Worsley, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; CHAPTER 1 Liverpool, My World --; CHAPTER 2 Cambridge and the Army --; CHAPTER 3 Peace and the Cold War --; CHAPTER 4 Australia: Into the Lion’s Den --; CHAPTER 5 Out of Anthropology, into Sociology --; CHAPTER 6 Manchester University: Upheaval --; CHAPTER 7 Latin America --; CHAPTER 8 Globalisation --; CHAPTER 9 London Town --; Notes and References
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857450647; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857450647
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Worsley.

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 his left-wing politics ensured that he could not get a job in anthropology, so he switched to sociology, on his return to Manchester.