David Robichaux was born in Louisiana and has lived in Mexico since 1966. Trained as a historian in the United States, he holds a master's degree in Social Anthropology from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He holds a Diplôme en Études Approfondies (dea) in Sociology from l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris, and holds a PhD in Ethnology from the Université de Paris-Nanterre (Paris, France). x). Between 1977 and 2005 he was a full time professor-researcher of the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology at the Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, where he is currently an honorary professor-researcher. He is a member of the National System of Researchers since 1996 and emeritus researcher since 2023. His research and publications in Mexico and abroad have dealt with family, kinship, socio-ethnic categories, demography, historical demography based on field and archival research in southwestern Tlaxcala and the Texcocan region and on devotional dances in the latter region. He has coordinated six collective volumes on family and kinship. Among his most recent publications areKinship and reciprocity in Latin America: cultural logics and practices, Cuaderno de Trabajo 4.edited with Javier O. Serrano and Juan Pablo Ferreiro. Asociación Latinoamericana de Antropología, 2024; "La comunidad corporada cerrada en el México pos-indígena. Desindianización y el destino de las exrepúblicas de indios en el siglo xxi"Runa, archive for the human sciencesvol. 45 (1): 19-40, 2024; and "Las danzas en los primeros pasos de la antropología sociocultural mexicana: miradas y marcos de análisis", trace 83: 53-80, 2023. https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5791-9903