Els Lagrou is Full Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and conducts research into the ontological, social and aesthetic regimes of Lowland South American native people. She published the books A fluidez da forma: arte, alteridade e agência em uma sociedade amazônica (The fluidity of form: art, alterity and agency in an Amazonian society) (Topbooks, 2007), Arte indígena no Brasil (Indigenous Arts in Brazil) (ComArte, 2009, 2024), edited with Carlo Severi Quimeras em diálogo, grafismo e figuração nas artes ameríndias (Chimeras in dialogue, patterns and figuration in Amerindian arts) (7Letras, 2014) and curated the exhibition and resulting catalogue No caminho da miçanga (On the path of glass beads) (MI/UNESCO, 2016). Much of her production is available on https://ufrj.academia.edu/ElsLagrou.
