[en] This article reviews the personal and academic career of Carmelo Lis?n Tolosana (1929-2020), author of a rich and deep anthropological production, whose works fill the last half century of Spanish production in this academic and scientific field. His intense scientific activity did not prevent him from carrying out another, no less intense, academic activity, which includes his contribution to the institutionalization of a social anthropology in Spain, of clear English and European roots. This anthropology was consistent with his training at Oxford University with a distinguished functionalist teaching staff, whose members made up the so-called English school, which gave British anthropology fame and splendor for several decades. The text pays special attention to the intellectual and professional itinerary of Carmelo Lis?n, which begins in the rural environment of the province of Zaragoza (Spain), in a small town of farmers, in the bosom of a family of artisans, and in a Spain poor, with little social openness. However, this is not an obstacle for him, skillfully using his intelligence and the social channels that remain open, to experience a marked personal progression, simultaneously with a pronounced social promotion. This is how it is incardinated first in the English university and, later, in the Spanish one, where it travels the entire academic ladder in a short space of time, while its scientific production becomes an inexcusable reference of anthropological interpretivism, both in Europe as outside our continent. In spite of everything, we are facing a trajectory analogous, in many respects, to that of other university professors of his time, whose substantial difference is found in the singular intensity that he imprints on his surprising life trajectory.

[es] El presente art?culo repasa la trayectoria personal y acad?mica de Carmelo Lis?n Tolosana (1929-2020), autor de una rica y profunda producci?n antropol?gica, cuyas obras llenan el ?ltimo medio siglo de la producci?n espa?ola en este ?mbito acad?mico y cient?fico. Su intensa actividad cient?fica no le impidi? llevar a cabo otra, no menos intensa, actividad acad?mica, que incluye su contribuci?n a la institucionalizaci?n de una antropolog?a social en Espa?a, de clara raigambre inglesa y europea. Esta antropolog?a era acorde con su formaci?n en la Universidad de Oxford, a la vera de un distinguido profesorado de adscripci?n funcionalista, cuyos miembros integraron la llamada escuela inglesa, que dio fama y esplendor, durante varias d?cadas a la antropolog?a brit?nica. El texto presta especial atenci?n al itinerario intelectual y profesional de Carmelo Lis?n, que se inicia en el medio rural de la provincia de Zaragoza (Espa?a), en un peque?o pueblo de agricultores, en el seno de una familia de artesanos, propia de una Espa?a pobre y con escasa apertura social. Sin embargo, ello no es obst?culo para que, utilizando h?bilmente su inteligencia y los canales sociales que quedan abiertos, experimente una marcada progresi?n personal, simult?neamente con una pronunciada promoci?n social. Es as? como se incardina primero en la universidad inglesa y, posteriormente, en la espa?ola, donde recorre en un corto espacio de tiempo todo el escalaf?n acad?mico, al tiempo que su producci?n cient?fica se convierte en una referencia inexcusable de la antropolog?a interpretativista, tanto en Europa como fuera de nuestro continente. A pesar de todo, estamos ante una trayectoria an?loga, en muchos aspectos, a la de otros profesores universitarios de su ?poca, cuya diferencia sustancial se encuentra en la singular intensidad que imprime a su sorprendente trayectoria vital.