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Portugal | Spain (Galicia) | Malaysia | Southeast Asia
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Creole societies | Social identities | Reflexivity | Critical Lusophone studies
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ISCTE
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Trained in the USA and Great Britain, and based in Portugal since 1982, BJO’s projects have focused on the anthropology of Europe and the Mediterranean (Galicia and Trás-os-Montes), peasant family structures, marriage patterns, inheritance systems, Gypsy communities and the East Timorese in Portugal, and biographical methods. He has been studying the Creole community resident in the so-called Portuguese Quarter of Malacca, analyzing the multiple social identities of this minority of Eurasians within a historical dimension. This case is situated within Southeast Asia, as well as the comparative scope of Eurasia, a new field located at the confluence of anthropology and ‘global history’.
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Integrated (2007-12-31)
