Renata de Castro Menezes is a tenured professor and curator in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a researcher at the cnpq and Faperj Scientist of Our State for the Faperj. At the National Museum, she coordinates the Ludens Laboratory of Anthropology of the Playful and the Sacred and is a professor in the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology. ppgas/mn/ufrj. She holds a BA in History, MA and PhD in Social Anthropology. She did a doctoral internship at ehess/Paris (2011-2012) and is a member of the Centre d'Études en Sciences Sociales du Religieux-CéSor. She has been a visiting researcher at New York University (2015-2016) and at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris (2019). Her publications include the thesis "The Dynamics of the Sacred" (2004) and the collective work. Anthropology and religion: authors and themeswith Faustino Teixeira (2023). He organized the exhibition "Doces Santos" (2020) and the module "Quem sabe, samba", in the exhibition "Um museu de descobertas", at the National Museum (2023).