Peter Worsley

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

For a classic of social anthropology counts his study of cargo cults in Melanesia, whose gradual development of nationalist movements, he shows. She also appeared in German under the title The trumpet shall sound ( The trumpet shall sound, 1957)

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

After a turbulent political and anthropological career - he worked with Max Gluckman 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 Introducing Sociology, an introduction to sociology, published (1970 ), which became a bestseller. He also wrote about Marx and Marxism (1982 ), and helped in the translation of Eduardo Archettis Guinea Pigs (Berg, 1997).

Worsley was in Manchester professor 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).

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  • The trumpet shall sound: a study of "cargo " cults in Melanesia. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1957 (English under the title: The trumpet shall sound, "Cargo" Cults in Melanesia, Frankfurt 1973)
  • The Third World. A.d.R. 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 Publisher Penguin
  • 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. Weidenf. and Nicolson, 1984
  • 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
  • ( Translator's ) 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, c1997.
  • An academic skating on thin ice. ISBN 978-1-84545-370-1
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