David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis (5 May 1929 – 2 December 2007) was a Britishanthropologist,ethnologist of lowlandSouth America, activist forindigenous peoples'human rights, andprofessor emeritus ofHarvard University.[1]
Born inHyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan), Maybury-Lewis attended theUniversity of Oxford, where he first studied modern languages, and later earned aDoctor of Philosophy degree in anthropology. 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 theXavante, as well aspost-modernist renditions. In 1972, he co-founded with his wife PiaCultural Survival, the leading US-basedadvocacy and documentation organization devoted to "promoting the rights, voices and visions ofindigenous peoples."[2]
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