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Renato Sztutman

Renato Sztutman is professor in the Department of Anthropology of the University of São Paulo (USP). He has an MA (2000) and a PhD (2005) in Social Anthropology from USP, in the field of Indigenous ethnology. He held a post-doctoral position in 2015 in the Department of Philosophy of the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre. He currently directs the Center for Amerindian Studies of USP (CEstA-USP). Between 2013 and 2017 he was editor-in-chief of the Revista de Antropologia (Anthropology Department from USP). He founded and co-edited, between 1997 and 2007, the journal Sexta-Feira. Some of his main publications are the book O profeta e o principal: a ação política ameríndia e seus personagens (Edusp/Fapesp, 2012) and the collection Eduardo Viveiros de Castro: entrevistas (Azougue, 2008). His main areas of research are: Indigenous cosmopolitics, the links between philosophy and anthropology, anthropology and film.