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Berghahn Books An Academic Skating on Thin Ice 2008 Edition by Peter Worsley
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 AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Liverpool, My WorldChapter 2. Cambridge and the ArmySwahili - My Doorway to AfricaInto IndiaDemobilisationChapter 3. Peace and the Cold WarAfrican ResistanceMaxChapter 4. Australia: Into the Lion's DenThe Aborigines of Groote EylandtChapter 5. Out of Anthropology, into SociologyMau Mau HellHull and HalifaxCanadian InterludeChapter 6. Manchester University: UpheavalChampions!The Student RevolutionDecline and Fall Into ChinaChapter 7. Latin AmericaEcuador!Que Viva Mexico!BrazilChapter 8. GlobalisationEthnomethodologyNew York, New York!Chapter 9. London TownPeace and WarNew Life and the Third AgeThe Millennium RevisitedThe Fourth AgeThe End of the World?Notes and References