Gabriel Luis Bourdin D. in Anthropology (unam). Professor and lecturer at universities in Mexico (enah, unam, uicSor Juana, among others), Argentina (ubaLuján, uner, unsm), Spain (University of Granada), France (Sorbonne-Université-Paris, France), France (Sorbonne-Université-Paris, France), France (Sorbonne-Université-Paris ivUniversité Bordeaux-Montaigne) and Bulgaria (University of Sofia). Member of the National System of Researchers (sni-conahcyt). He is a full-time researcher at the Institute of Anthropological Research at the University of California, Berkeley. unam. Research member of the Association Marcel Jousse, based in Paris. His area of study is the anthropology of language. He recently published The anthropological jungle. An introduction to Marcel Jousse's anthropology of gesture and pampering. (unam2019); and the first translation into Spanish of The oral, rhythmic and mnemotechnical style of the verbo-motors, by Marcel Joussepreceded by an introductory essay (unam, 2020). He has published several books and articles on the subject of the body and emotions in the Mayan language. She coordinates the Permanent Seminar on Anthropology of the Body, Emotions and Expressive Gesture (IIA-iia-unam).