Marcos P. D. Lanna holds a degree in Economics from the University of São Paulo (1982), a master's degree in Social Anthropology from the State University of Campinas (1987), a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago (1991) and a postdoctoral fellowship in Anthropology from the University of São Paulo (2006) and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2017, the latter with a scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development-.cnpq, where he was a productivity scholar between 2003 and 2013). He was associate professor at the Federal University of Paraná (1995-2006) and since 2006 at the Federal University of São Carlos. He has ethnographic works in the Brazilian northeast. He has focused on research on anthropological theory, especially the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Louis Dumont, anthropology of complex societies, anthropology of Brazil and exchange theory. He was coordinator of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo. ufpr (1995-2000), Director of Anpocs (2003-2004), head of the Social Sciences Department at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. ufsCar (2008-2010 and 2019-2022). He coordinates the Center for the Study of Hierarchy and Value (nehv). He was visiting professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City (2004) and at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale of the Collège de France (2023).