An Academic Skating on Thin Ice

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-370-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 582 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Worsley, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Liverpool, My World

Chapter 2. Cambridge and the Army

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Swahili – My Doorway to Africa

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Into India

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Demobilisation

Chapter 3. Peace and the Cold War

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African Resistance

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Max

Chapter 4. Australia: Into the Lion’s Den

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The Aborigines of Groote Eylandt

Chapter 5. Out of Anthropology, into Sociology

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Mau Mau Hell

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Hull and Halifax

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Canadian Interlude

Chapter 6. Manchester University: Upheaval

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Champions!

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The Student Revolution

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Decline and Fall Into China

Chapter 7. Latin America

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Ecuador

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¡Qué Viva México!

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Brazil

Chapter 8. Globalisation

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Ethnomethodology

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New York, New York!

Chapter 9. London Town

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Peace and War

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New Life and the Third Age

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The Millennium Revisited

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The Fourth Age

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The End of the World?

Notes and References

Über Autor(innen)

Worsley, Peter
Peter Worsley (1924-2013), winner of the Curl Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute, became first Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He went to China a few months after Nixon and, upon retirement, taught in New York. His book, The Third World, introduced that term into the English language, while the Penguin edition of Introducing Sociology sold over half a million copies.

Peter Worsley (1924-2013), winner of the Curl Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute, became first Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He went to China a few months after Nixon and, upon retirement, taught in New York. His book, The Third World, introduced that term into the English language, while the Penguin edition of Introducing Sociology sold over half a million copies.