Paulo Maia Figueiredo is Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He works with indigenous school education and is a specialist in ritual aesthetics in Amazonia, as well as co-founder and curator of forumdoc.bh, forum of cinema and anthropology, a project carried out in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, since 1997 (www.forumdoc.org.br). He is currently expanding his work in the field of Performance Studies and conducting research in the Hemi archives and NYU libraries.