Aurélie Névot is an anthropologist, researcher at the CNRS. She is the author of several books (Comme le sel, je suis le cours de l'eau, 2008; Versets chamaniques, 2013; La Couronne de l'Orient, 2013; Masters of Psalmody, 2019) and articles or chapters of books mainly devoted to the Nip'a (to the scriptural shamanism of this branch of the Chinese Yi nationality and to the relations that the latter maintains with the Chinese power). She recently wrote a book on theoretical anthropology (le Corps effacé, 2021).