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Peter Worsley

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#622

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Peter Worsley's Degrees

Bachelors History University of Oxford
PhD Sociology University of Manchester

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According to Wikipedia, Peter Maurice Worsley was a noted British sociologist and social anthropologist. He was a major figure in both anthropology and sociology, and is noted for introducing the term Third World into English. He not only made theoretical and ethnographic contributions, but also was regarded as a key founding member of the New Left.

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The myth of the negro past (1948) (475)
The Three Worlds: Culture and World Development (1984) (193)
Towards a Pax Africana: A Study of Ideology and Ambition (1967) (89)
Third World (1965) (68)
Early Asian Contacts with Australia (1955) (53)
Marx and Marxism (1982) (47)
Guinea Pigs: Food, Symbol and Conflict of Knowledge in Ecuador (1997) (45)
The New Introducing Sociology (1987) (44)
The Kinship System of the Tallensi: A Revaluation (1956) (41)
Two blades of grass : rural cooperatives in agricultural modernization (1973) (33)
The State of Theory and the Status of Theory (1974) (30)
Emile Durkheim's Theory of Knowledge (1956) (27)
Knowledges: What Different Peoples Make of the World (1997) (24)
Models of the Modern World-System (1990) (22)
Knowledges: Culture, Counterculture, Subculture (1998) (22)
How many worlds (1979) (18)
Frantz Fanon and the “Lumpenproletariat” (1972) (18)
One World or Three: A Critique of the World System of Immanuel Wallerstein (1980) (15)
The new modern sociology readings (1991) (15)
The Sociology of the Third World: disparity and involvement (1976) (14)
The changing social structure of the Wanindiljaugwa (1954) (11)
NOUN-CLASSIFICATION IN AUSTRALIAN AND BANTU: FORMAL OR SEMANTIC? (1954) (7)
Totemism in a Changing Society1 (1955) (7)
The Distribution of Power in Industrial Society (1960) (7)
Marxism and culture: The missing concept (1981) (7)
Back to basics: biophysical methods in tissue viability research. (2013) (7)
ONE WORLD OR THREE ? A CRITIQUE OF THE WORLD-SYSTEM THEORY OF IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN * (2005) (7)
The Pursuit of the Millennium in Melanesia@@@The Trumpet Shall Sound; A Study of 'Cargo' Cults in Melanesia (1958) (7)
Problems of Modern Society (1974) (5)
On the brink : nuclear proliferation and the third world (1987) (4)
Book Review: Proletarians, Sub-Proletarians, Lumpenproletarians, Marginalidados, Migrants, Urban Peasants and Urban Poor (1976) (4)
Tenants of the almighty (1948) (4)
a landmark in anthropology (1984) (4)
Modern sociology : introductory readings : selected readings (1970) (4)
6. The Kinship System of the Tallensi: A Revaluation. (1956) (3)
261. Material Symbols of Human Beings Among the Wanindiljaugwa (1954) (3)
19. Narrative Bas-Reliefs at Candi Surawana (1986) (2)
Remains of an Earlier People in Uhehe (1949) (1)
RELIGION AND POLITICS IN CENTRAL AFRICA (1959) (1)
The reification of Marxism: Rejoinder to Lazar (1975) (1)
PARADIGMS OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (1981) (1)
History of a Project (2020) (1)
Inside China@@@Economic Management in China (1976) (0)
Creating computing: quiet revolution led by the other SAS. (1983) (0)
Neo-Anticolonialism@@@The Third World (1965) (0)
David Barnard Thompson (1932–2013) (2014) (0)
Functional budgeting. (1979) (0)
N. N. MIKLOUKHO-MACLAY, PIONEER OF PACIFIC ANTHROPOLOGY (1952) (0)
The Meat as Commodity (2020) (0)
Letters. Reverse osmosis plants (1972) (0)
THE REVOLT OF THE INARTICULATE (1960) (0)
Images of the Other (2019) (0)
Problems of modern society : a sociological perspective (1978) (0)
Social and Cultural Logics (2020) (0)
63. The Totemic System of the WaniNdijaugwa (1955) (0)
Obituary, Boy Joseph (1998) (0)
The Meat Transformed (2020) (0)
OTHER: Terror and Resistance: A Study of Political Violence, with Case Studies of Some Primitive African Communities. Eugene Victor Walter. Terror and Society (1970) (0)
The Healing Meat (2020) (0)
Basic Sociology: An Introduction to the Study of Society.@@@Approaching Sociology: A Critical Introduction.@@@Introducing Sociology.@@@Sociology: An Outline for the Intending Student. (1972) (0)
The Meat Produced (2020) (0)
The Capitalist World-Economy@@@Mexican Agriculture 1521-1630: Transformation of the Mode of Production (1980) (0)
The Cultural Complexity of the Guinea-pig (2020) (0)
The Superpowers and the Tribes (2020) (0)
Letter to the editor: freedom and authority (1970) (0)
Max Weber@@@Emile Durkheim.@@@Marx and Marxism. (1983) (0)
Conference on populism: verbatim report (1967) (0)

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