José Maurício Arruti is a historian and anthropologist, associate professor at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and co-founder of Afro – research nucleus of the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). He has conducted anthropological research and social projects with indigenous peoples and rural black communities in Brazil and Colombia. His topics of interest are Territory, Knowledge and Ethnicity. He is currently developing two research projects. One of them is about indigenous mobility to big cities and their access to university. The other research is about local knowledge and practices, production of law, and access to justice for traditional black communities in Brazil and Colombia. He has published ‘Mocambo – Antropologia e História do Processo de Formação Quilombola [Mocambo – Anthropology and History of the Quilombola Building] (ANPOCS award, 2006) and ‘Panorama Quilombola – Mídia, Educação e Acesso à Justiça’ [Quilombola Perspective – Media, Education and Access to Justice] (2022).