Frédéric Saumade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aix-Marseille and a member of the Institute of Mediterranean, European and Comparative Ethnology (Institut d'Ethnologie Méditerranée, Européenne et Comparée (idemec) of Aix-en-Provence. His research focuses both on the bull and on bullfighting and livestock practices in the Camargue, Spain, Portugal, Mexico and the United States, as well as on bullfighting rites and representations among various Amerindian populations. In Mexico, he has conducted fieldwork among the Nahua-Mestizo, Otomi and Huichol (wixaritari), and has published several articles in Spanish on the subject. He is the author of a dozen works, including two dealing with the American continent (Mexico and California), Maçatl. Transformations of bullfighting games in Mexico (Bordeaux : Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2008) and Cowboys, clowns and bullfighters. Reversible America (Paris: Berg International, 2014, with the collaboration of Jean-Baptiste Maudet). He has also published works on the epistemology and history of anthropology, and on percussion and material culture in mixed-race and indigenous musics of the United States, his current field of study.