Brian Juan O'Neill is a retired Full Professor (Professor Catedrático Jubilado) of Anthropology at the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL). A native New Yorker of Irish, Andalusian, and Puerto-Rican ancestry, following undergraduate studies in his home town and postgraduate training in Great Britain he has resided in Portugal since 1982. His early research on Galicia and Trás-os-Montes focused on linguistic domination, folktales, marriage strategies, bastardy, and patterns of inheritance. Subsequent research contemplated mortuary rituals, biographical methods, ethnic minority groups in Portugal (gypsies and East-Timorese), practice theory, and reflexive anthropology. Currently he is analyzing the kristang Creole population in the so-called Portuguese Quarter of Malacca (Malaysia), poorly known either as the purportedly direct descendants of sixteenth-century Portuguese colonists or (worse yet) even more erroneously simply as authentic Portuguese. Via critical anthropology, he seeks to disentangle the multiple, superimposed identities of this singular minority of Eurasians, as well as deconstruct the plethora of reductionist stereotypes which they have accumulated over time and, indeed, in some cases even internalized. A careful reader of the hyper-critical works of the ethnologist-sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the anthropologists Edmund Leach and Jack Goody, his latest work resuscitates the category of Eurasia. Linked to global history, a comparative anthropology can unmask the myth of the role of Europe as the hypothetically major world-system, thus revealing more intimate cultural ties, formerly ignored or even consciously whitewashed, between East and West. Publicou 20 artigos em revistas especializadas e 14 trabalhos em actas de eventos, possui 11 capítulos de livros e 7 livros publicados. Possui 99 itens de produção técnica. Participou em 3 eventos em Portugal. Recebeu 6 prémios e/ou homenagens. Nas suas actividades profissionais interagiu com 17 colaboradores em co-autorias de trabalhos científicos.