A French anthropologist specialized in Southern Africa; she makes ethnographic films about the anthropology of ecology, communication, the anthropology of health, and gender issues. Between 1994 and 2011 she lived in Mozambique, providing consulting services to all of Southern Africa and Asia. She has been affiliated with the International Rural Poultry Centre (IRPC) and the KYEEMA Foundation. She is a professor at the Anthropology Department at Witwatersrand University, and at the Environmental and Population Health Department of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, United States.