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Page i Stranger in Their Midst

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title	:	Stranger in Their Midst
author	:	Van den Berghe, Pierre L.
publisher	:	University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin	:	0870812025
print isbn13	:	9780870812026
ebook isbn13	:	9780585027807
language	:	English
subject	Van den Berghe, Pierre L, Ethnologists--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Biography, Ethnologists--United States--Biography.
publication date	:	1989
lcc	:	GN21.V36A3 1989eb
ddc	:	301/.092
subject	:	Van den Berghe, Pierre L, Ethnologists--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Biography, Ethnologists--United States--Biography.

Page iii Stranger in Their Midst Pierre L. van den Berghe UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO

Page iv Copyright 1989 by the University Press of Colorado Niwot, CO 80544 Printed in the United States of America All Rights Reserved First Edition The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.481984 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Van den Berghe, Pierre L. Stranger in their midst. 1. Van den Berghe, Pierre L.2. EthnologistsZaire Biography. 3. EthnologistsUnited StatesBiography. I. Title. GN21.V36A31989301'.092 [B]89-14732 ISBN 0-87081-202-5 (alk. paper)

Page v To my mother, Denise Caullery, who started it all; to my wife, Irmgard Niehuis, who bore it all; and to my sons Eric, Oliver, and Marc, my half-shares into the future.

Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Preface xi 1. Kith and Kin 1 2. Growing Up in War and Peace 24 3. A Colonial Interlude 60 4. The Farm 85 5. Reluctant Soldiering 100 6. The Left Bank 125 7. The Yard 137 8. Apartheid 153 9. Scrambling Up the Academic Ladder 180 10. Africa Again: Kenya and Nigeria 201 11. Back in Seattle 231 12. Los Caminos del Inca 248 13. Academic Wanderings 272 14. Some Musings on Human Behavior 289

Page ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Autobiography is, in a sense, protracted acknowledgment, so I can be brief here. My main debt goes to the members of my family who have had to put up with me. As several of them are wont to remind me, I am not easy to live with. But I want to thank specifically those who read portions of the manuscript in draft form. From their many comments and corrections, I discovered how fallible human memory is. They include, besides my immediate family (whose main contribution was to try to keep me honest), several persons whose names appear in these pages and a few others besides: Heribert and Kogila Adam, Nick Colby, Harvey Dyck, Ulf Hannerz, Hilda and Leo Kuper, Richard La Piere, Jacques Maquet, Ben Orlove, Naomi Pascal, George Primov, Ramn Ruiz, and George and Louise Spindler. As a confirmed materialist, I should acknowledge the all-important contribution of my typist, Matt Fenner. In my entire career, I never encountered anyone who combined such skill, intelligence, and good cheer in converting my unsightly scribblings into a beautiful typescript. At the University Press of Colorado, Luther Wilson wisely encouraged me to tone down some of my broadsides, and Alice Levine did an elegant, sensitive job of editing my prose, and purging it of superfluous italics, quotation marks, and capitalizations. And, of course, the bucolic setting of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford made my task an exercise in hedonism as well as narcissism.

Page xi PREFACE Autobiography requires even more of an apology than most other books. The personal motivation for writing one is obvious enough and goes to the root of the human condition. Having evolved a large self-conscious brain, we are cursed with the certainty of death. Finding that prospect disagreeable, we strive to achieve two forms of survival beyond the confines of our perishable carnal envelope. The first we share with all life forms: we strive to survive and reproduce biologically or, as evolutionary biologists put it, to "maximize our fitness." Because we are partially conscious animals, our reproductive drive is at least in part a matter of deliberate choice, and our modern technology of contraception has recently widened the scope and reliability of that choice. Yet, quite clearly; the linkage between reproduction and consciousness in our species is a fluke, a by-product of developing a one-and-a-half liter thinking machine in the last couple of million years of hominid evolution. Most life forms manage to reproduce quite well without consciousness. Indeed, as Richard Dawkins so eloquently put it in

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