Stephan feuchtwang biography of barack

Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane
Filmed by Alan Macfarlane
Edited by Sarah Harrison
Interview Length: 1 hour, 56 minutes, and 25 seconds
Interview date: March 12, 2006 

Description of Interview

“All anthropologists cultivate being marginal to some extent, and may already incline in that direction,” says Stephen Feuchtwang.

In this interview, Feuchtwang speaks of his life and his work in Taiwan and China. He was born in Berlin in 1937 but his family fled less than a year later during the Anschluß. Six months earlier, Feuchtwang’s Austrian father had been released from the gaol with immunity.

Stephan feuchtwang biography of barack

Following the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, the family escaped to stay with Feuchtwang’s paternal aunt in Holland, before they eventually settled in England. Life in England was not that easy however. Feuchtwang’s father was interned in the Isle of Wight during the time of World War II, while his mother worked several jobs and was depe