Doctorant en ethnologie à l'EHESS-Paris, mais actuellement chercheur invité à UC Los Angeles. Je fais ma thèse sur le marché international de l'art ancien amérindien. J'ai vécu 5 ans en France entre Bordeaux, Châteauroux et Marseille. Je kiffe la cuisine, la rando, l'art, la musique et la culture en général.

Grad student doing PhD at Parisian school but visiting researcher in Los Angeles. I study the international Native American art market in order to help return cultural heritage to indigenous nations. Lived 5 years in France studying and working.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I have only couch surfed a few of times as a guest, but I have hosted many guests when I lived in Santa Cruz, but also in Châteauroux and Marseille on my roommates’ accounts. I love the concept and hope to surf across the world to meet cool new people in new contexts.

Interests

foreign languages and culture, playing the banjo, blues/Old Time, Hip-hop, cumbia, electro, reggae, jazz, singing, street art, eating and cooking delicious cuisine, hiking, political and economic anthropology, traveling, reading, cosmogony, sustainability, camping, linguistics, history

• arts
• culture
• books
• singing
• fashion
• street art
• cooking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• camping
• baseball
• soccer
• anthropology
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Khruangbin, Tarek Yamani, Nina Simone, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Family Atlantica, Goat, Omer Avital, Quantic, Nidia Gongora, La Rue Kétanou, Fabe, Oddisee, Ana Tijoux, Alsarah, Jorge Ben, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, La Yegros, Buyepongo, Lido Pimienta, Nicolas Jaar, Nicola Cruz, Onra, A Tribe Called Red, Chico Mann, Captain Planet, Mountain Man

Movies: Alejandro González Iñárritu , Ana Lily Amirpour, Chloe Zhao, Xavier Dolan, Sterlin Harjo, The Sting, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Pierrot le fou

Books: Leslie Marmon Silko, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Gabriel García Márquez, Herman Hesse, John Steinbeck, The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbed mount Whitney, the tallest mountain in the continental states. Went to the Taj Mahal and tasted and saw many other wonders of beautiful India.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food, cooking, conversation, music

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States