Louis. She researches the relationship between various modes of moral and legal regulation and production regimes. She is interested in the globalization of trade and legal frameworks, the cultural and ethical dimensions of entrepreneurship and business, the semiotics of branding, and the production of fashion. By looking at this topic through an anthropological lens, she examines the cultural and moral context of brand “piracy” as well as what Maya manufacturers’ practices of copying and imitation reveal about gender, kinship, and ethnicity in the region.