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An Academic Skating on Thin Ice

By Peter Worsley

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2008
ISBN
9780857450647
DOI
10.1515/9780857450647
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11664177 bytes)
Pages
296\296
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 04:16:05

Description

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.

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