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Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

Pierre L. van den Berghe
Half, Lasts, Boat
'From the Popocatepetl to the Limpopo', collected in Bennett Berger (ed) Authors of their Own Lives (1990).

I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference.

Pierre L. van den Berghe
Distance, Political, Suffering
'From the Popocatepetl to the Limpopo', collected in Bennett Berger (ed) Authors of their Own Lives (1990).

A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.

Pierre L. van den Berghe
Book, Achievement, Elegance

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