Word: borneo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begin by explaining my title. Throughout 1971 and 1972, I lived in a remote longhouse community in central north Borneo, where I was conducting anthropological fieldwork. When I returned to Cambridge early in 1974 I resumed my position as a resident tutor at the cooperative house on Sacramento Street. Like all returning field-workers who have been through a painful process of adaptation to another society, I suffered several weeks of reverse culture shock. I no longer seemed able to function properly in my own culture. For a short while, my expectations of what people were going to do next...
...coziness of it all. But slowly I perceived that there was more to my ease than merely returning to a place where I had lived before. There are striking resemblances between the community I now found myself in and the one I had just left in far-off Borneo. A couple of examples will illustrate the varying levels at which I noted similarities...
...Borneo...
...final clubs have been eerily quiet on weekdays lately. "I was the only person in there today," said one clubbie. "But on Saturday nights everybody shows up and goes Borneo...
There is no drug problem; at least, nothing worse than we have had throughout history. There is indeed a drug panic, but it bears a close resemblance to "Bung" Karno's war against Borneo; the pent-up aggression of a frustrated people in search of an enemy more tangible than their own frustrations. Now, when I am asked about the advisability of having a "real drug addict" talk about his tribulations, I add that, to be fair, they really ought to have a child molester along to give a paean on the desirability of five-year-old girls. The grand...