Claudia Barcellos Rezende is a Full Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ). She has a PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics. Besides her publications in scientific books and journals, she has organized, along with Yvonne Maggie, the collection of essays “Raça Como Retórica: a construção da diferença (Civilização Brasileira, 2002)”. She has published the books “Os Significados da Amizade: Duas Visões de Pessoa e Sociedade” (Editora FGV, 2002) and “Retratos do Estrangeiro: Identidade Nacional, Subjetividade e Emoção” (Editora FGV, 2009). She has co-authored the books “Antropologia das Emoções” (Editora FGV, 2010) and “Cultura e Sentimentos: Ensaios em Antropologia das Emoções” (FAPERJ/Contracapa, 2011) with Maria Claudia Coelho. Her main areas of research are: friendship and family, subjectivity and emotion, gender, body, pregnancy and childbirth. She is a CNPq research productivity fellow (level 1D).