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AN ACADEMIC SKATING ON THIN ICE
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| By: |
Peter Worsley |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£85.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1845453700 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781845453701 |
| Publisher: |
BERGHAHN BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
4 April, 2008 |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Description: |
Peter Worsley's studies at Cambridge were interrupted by war service as a communist officer in the colonial forces in Africa and India, which got him interested in anthropology. His book on The Third World introduced that term into the English language. On retirement as Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester, he wrote Knowledges. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Berghahn Books |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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