Abstract

O'NEILL, Brian Juan. The 1970s in 3D: personal reflections. Etnográfica [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.2, pp.333-340. ISSN 0873-6561.

The 1970s began surprisingly for the author in 1968, amidst anti-war protests and critiques at Columbia University in New York. Pondering over his trajectory during that decade, three dimensions (academic, biographical, and poetic) interlaced as he emigrated to Europe, and as he passed from literary studies through American and later to British anthropology. The critical revelations of the great realists echoed within the title and contents of the London journal Critique of Anthropology, just as the ferocious critical tone of ethnographers such as Cutileiro and Bourdieu echoed within the author’s monograph of an apparently “communitarian” hamlet in Trás-os-Montes, composed between 1974 and 1982. Critique became a veritable life-style. Delayed consciousness of his own double ethnic identity as both a Hispanic and an “assimilated white” did not obscure the possibility of all these multiple dimensions having subtly fused together. Can we accumulate two, if not three, identities?

Keywords : 1970s; American anthropology; British anthropology; biographical reflections; literary realism; critical anthropology.

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