Curated the anthropological exhibition "What Is a Body?" that will
open at the new Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, in June 2006.
Is a French ethnologist, specializing in Melanesia.
Member of the Center of Anthropology of the Contemporary World, School for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (E.H.E.S.S, Paris), where he teaches social anthropology and the semiotics of film.