Shamans Max Carocci is a cultural and social anthropologist and currently serves as adjunct professor in Art History and Visual Cultures at the American University in London. For twelve years, he developed and taught the World Arts program at Birkbeck College in London in collaboration with the British Museum. He is the co-editor of Art, Shamanism and Animism (2022) and has organized various exhibitions and collections for institutions such as the British Museum, the Horniman Museum, the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, and the Muse du Nouveau Monde in La Rochelle, France.