An academic skating on thin ice

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An academic skating on thin ice

Peter Worsley

Berghahn Books, 2008

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-281)

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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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List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Liverpool, My World Chapter 2. Cambridge and the Army Swahili - My Doorway to Africa Into India Demobilisation Chapter 3. Peace and the Cold War African Resistance Max Chapter 4. Australia: Into the Lion's Den The Aborigines of Groote Eylandt Chapter 5. Out of Anthropology, into Sociology Mau Mau Hell Hull and Halifax Canadian Interlude Chapter 6. Manchester University: Upheaval Champions! The Student Revolution Decline and Fall Into China Chapter 7. Latin America Ecuador !Que Viva Mexico! Brazil Chapter 8. Globalisation Ethnomethodology New York, New York! Chapter 9. London Town Peace and War New Life and the Third Age The Millennium Revisited The Fourth Age The End of the World? Notes and References

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