Anthropologist. PhD in Social Sciences (Anthropology) from PUC São Paulo. Full Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Member of the Brazilian Anthropological Association. Visiting Researcher at CRIA (University of Minho, Portugal). Conducts fieldwork with terreiro communities in Natal and Brazil’s northeastern hinterland. His research interests include Afro-Indigenous Brazilian religions, memory, oral traditions, cultural heritage, archives, and museums.