Peter Maurice Worsley (6 May 1924 – 15 March 2013) was a noted British sociologist and social anthropologist.
He not only made theoretical and ethnographic contributions, but also was regarded as a key founding member of the New Left.
[1][2] Born in Birkenhead, Worsley started reading English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, but his studies were interrupted by World War II.
After the war, he worked on mass education in Tanganyika and then went to study under Max Gluckman at the University of Manchester.
[1][2] Winner of the Curl Bequest Prize (1955) of the Royal Anthropological Institute for The kinship system of the Tallensi: a revaluation (Published in JRAI 1956, pp. 37–75).