Maria de Lourdes Beldi de Alcântara Doctor in Anthropology at the University of Sao Paulo, with the thesis “A censura da Igreja Católica a Produção Cinematografica”. She is a professor and coordinator in Medical Anthropology at the University of São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina-FMUSP. Central themes of his research: health, religion, indigenous population and human and indigenous rights. His most recent publications: Religiosity and the Problem of Belonging for Amerindian Young People in Brazil. In A Critical Youth Studies for the 21st Century (2015); Brazil Indigenous. In The Indigenous World (2015); Brazil Indigenous. In The Indigenous World (2016).