David Maybury-Lewis

David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis (5 May 1929 – 2 December 2007) was a British anthropologist, ethnologist of lowland South America, activist for indigenous peoples' human rights, and professor emeritus of Harvard University.

Born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan), Maybury-Lewis attended the University of Oxford, at which he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree. In 1960, he joined the Harvard faculty, and was Edward C. Henderson Professor of Anthropology there from 1966 until he retired in 2004. His extensive ethnographic fieldwork was conducted primarily among indigenous peoples in central Brazil, which culminated in his ethnography among the Xavante, as well as post-modernist renditions. In 1972, he co-founded with his wife Pia Cultural Survival, the leading US-based advocacy and documentation organization devoted to "promoting the rights, voices and visions of indigenous peoples."

Awards

Selected bibliography
  • Akwẽ-Shavante Society (1974) ISBN 0-19-519729-1
  • Dialectical Societies: The Ge and Bororo of Central Brazil (1979) ISBN 0-674-20285-6
  • Prospects for Plural Societies: 1982 Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society (1984) ISBN 0-942976-04-5
  • The Attraction of Opposites: Thought and Society in the Dualistic Mode (1989) ISBN 0-472-08086-5
  • Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World (1992) ISBN 0-670-82935-8
  • The Savage and the Innocent (2000) ISBN 0-8070-4685-X
  • Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the State (2001) ISBN 0-205-33746-5
  • The Politics of Ethnicity:Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States (2003) ISBN 0-674-00964-9
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  • Biography
  • Cultural Survival
  • Prins, Harald E.L., and Graham, Laura. 2008. “Pioneer in Brazilian Ethnography & Indigenous Rights Advocacy: David Maybury-Lewis (1929-2007).” Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, Vol.6 (No.1-2), pp. 115–22.


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