An academic skating on thin ice
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An academic skating on thin ice
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.
Table of Contents
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?
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