An Academic Skating on Thin IceBerghahn Books, 2008 - 281 pages 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. |
Contents
List of Illustrations | 11 |
3 | 52 |
4 | 79 |
5 | 100 |
On leave 1946 | 101 |
British Economic Mission Tanzania 1965 | 107 |
Dean of Faculty of Economic and Social Studies | 110 |
Out of Anthropology into Sociology | 113 |
Hell Hull and Halifax | 126 |
Canadian Interlude | 137 |
6 | 147 |
7 | 179 |
8 | 212 |
London Town | 228 |
Notes and References | 275 |
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