{"product_id":"an-academic-skating-on-thin-ice-9781845453701","title":"An Academic Skating on Thin Ice","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Peter Worsley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47611610529943,"sku":"9781845453701","price":14638.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781845453701.webp?v=1775071777","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/an-academic-skating-on-thin-ice-9781845453701","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}