Marcio Goldman is a professor of Social Anthropology in the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) with a research project on African matrix religions in Brazil. Among others, he is the author of “Razão e diferença. Sobre Lucien Lévy-Bruhl”, “Como funciona a democracia. Uma teoria etnográfica da política” and “Do outro lado do tempo. Ensaios sobre as religiões de matriz africana.”