An Academic Skating on Thin Ice.

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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 Uni...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Worsley, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2008.
Temas:
Worsley, Peter.
Sociologists > England > Biography.
Anthropologists > England > Biography.
Sociologues > Angleterre > Biographies.
Anthropologues > Angleterre > Biographies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Anthropologists
Sociologists
England
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (296 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281).
ISBN:9780857450647
0857450646

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