I think one of the interesting things about
the sixties is that sociology was developing
very rapidly.
I was moving away from geography, I was influenced
by the survey approach of John Westergaard,
and the Mediterranean anthropology of Paul
Stirling and his students, so I was, in a
sense, marginal to all of this, and had to
make up my own position as between the geography
I’d left, the sociology I was coming towards,
and the social anthropology that was there
in my daily life.
I had to work out a sort of “Pahl position”,
holding these different elements together
