I just took a look at Wikipedia, as I didnt know the name, David. He
certainly was a maverick, but I like his sense that we're everything,
rather than one thing against all others....
Thanks for the notice...
Doug
On 30-Sep-10, at 12:36 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> R.I.P Stan Gooch, the maverick anthropologist, who really did reject
> the
> 'system, ending up living in poverty in his seventies in a caravan
> in Wales,
> who died on September 13th of breathing problems.
>
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