Peter Worsley

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Peter Worsley (born May 6, 1924 in Birkenhead , † March 15, 2013 ) is a British anthropologist and sociologist .

One of the classics of social anthropology is his study of cargo cults in Melanesia , the gradual development of which into nationalist movements he shows. She also appeared in German under the title The trumpet shall sound (The trumpet shall sound, 1957)

His main topics are the Third World , Marxism and decolonization .

After an eventful political and anthropological career - he worked with Max Gluckman in the Department of Anthropology in Manchester , conducted research in Africa, Australia, New Guinea, at the University of Hull - he became the first professor of sociology at the University of Manchester , where he was Introducing Sociology , an Introduction to Sociology, published (1970), which became a bestseller. He also wrote on Marx and Marxism (1982) and helped translate Eduardo Archetti's Guinea Pigs (Berg, 1997).

Worsley was a professor in Manchester until 1983. He was twice President of the British Sociological Association .

His autobiography was published under the title An Academic Skating on Thin Ice (2008).

Quote

"You've one great defect, that you were not trained at Cambridge and know no anthropology."

- Max Gluckman to Peter Worsley

Fonts

  • The trumpet shall sound: a study of "Cargo" cults in Melanesia. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1957 (German under the title: The trumpet will sound, "Cargo" cults in Melanesia, Frankfurt 1973)
  • The Anatomy of Mau Mau (PDF; 69 kB). The New Reasoner Summer 1957 number 1
  • The Third World. CoR The Nature of Human Society. Series. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London 1964
  • Profits in the British Economy 1909-1938. Basil Blackwell 1967
  • Two blades of grass. Rural cooperatives in agricultural mondernization. Manchester: Univ. P., 1971
  • Introducing sociology. 1972 Penguin publishing house
  • Inside China. London Allan Lane Penguin 1975
  • (Ed.) Problems of modern society. A sociological perspective. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1973, 2nd edition
  • Marx and Marxism. Key Sociologists. Great Britain Ellis Horwood / Tavistock 1982
  • The Three Worlds. Culture and world development. Lond. Willow f. and Nicolson, 1984
  • with Kofi Buenor Hadjor (eds.): On the Brink: Nuclear Proliferation and the Third World. London: Third World Communications / Kwame Nkrumah House, 1987
  • Knowledges - What Different Peoples Make of the World. Profile Books, 1997
  • (Transl.) Eduardo P. Archetti: Guinea-pigs: food, symbol and conflict of knowledge in Ecuador. Translated from the Spanish by Valentina Napolitano and Peter Worsley. Oxford & New York: Berg, 1997
  • An academic skating on thin ice. ISBN 978-1-84545-370-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in The Guardian, March 28, 2013
  2. ↑ Document on Peter Worsley ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( MS Word ; 74 kB), accessed on October 10, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dspace.cam.ac.uk
personal data
SURNAME Worsley, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Worsley, Peter Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British anthropologist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Birkenhead
DATE OF DEATH 15 March 2013