Pierre L Van Den Berghe Quotes

1933 -

US sociologist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Washington.

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.

'From the Popocatepetl to the Limpopo', collected in Bennett Berger (ed) Authors of their Own Lives (1990).

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

Pierre L Van Den Berghe
— 'From the Popocatepetl to the Limpopo', collected in Bennett Berger (ed), Authors of their Own Lives (1990).

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