Sara le menestrel She is a cultural anthropologist and researcher at the CNRS. Within the field of music anthropology, his research interests include the construction and negotiation of difference in Louisiana. In 2015 he published Negotiating Difference: Categories, Stereotypes and Identiations in French Louisiana Music (University of Mississippi). Between 2007 and 2012, he coordinated the nationally funded project “Musiques, danses et mondialisation: circulations, mutations, pouvoir”, which resulted in a team-written book, Des vies en musique. Parcours d'artistes, mobilités, transformations, to be published in 2020 in English by Routledge. Since 2005, he has expanded his research interests to the anthropology of the disaster in post-Katrina Louisiana and -Rita. Since 2015, he started an ethnography of mindfulness meditation focused on health care in France and the United States.