Brian Juan O’Neill is an anthropologist with a literary background, trained at Columbia, Essex, and the London School of Economics, based in Portugal since 1982. A collaborator of Critique of Anthropology in its early years, a sharply critical spirit has infused his 3 field stints, focusing on sociolinguistics and folklore in Spain (Galicia), Mediterranean and European ethnography in Portugal (Trás-os-Montes), and Portuguese Creole communities in Southeast Asia (Malacca). He is completing a monograph deconstructing the notion that Malacca’s bairro português is indeed ‘Portuguese’ at all, but rather a phantasmagoric relic fabricated and projected backwards in time during the Estado Novo. Books include Proprietários, Lavradores, e Jornaleiras (1984, 2ª ed. 2011), translated as Social Inequality in a Portuguese Hamlet (1987, online 2009), Lugares de Aqui co-edited with Joaquim Pais de Brito (1991), Antropologia Social – Sociedades Complexas (2006, online 2020), and A Relic People?The Eurasian World of the Malacca Portuguese (in preparation).