Luis Ferreira Makl is Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. He is currently Associate Researcher, Nucleus of Afro-Brazilian Studies, University of Brasilia. His research interests lie in Black Latin-American Music, and Studies in Culture, Power and Racial Relations, publishing Los Tambores del Candombe (2002), and El Movimiento Negro en Uruguay (2003), as well as several papers presented in Latin-American forums.