An Academic Skating on Thin Ice

✍ Scribed by Peter Worsley

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 296
• Category: Library

✦ 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.

✦ Table of Contents

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