David Maybury-Lewis

David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis (May 5, 1929 – December 2, 2007) was an 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 Oxford University, at which he earned a D.Phil. 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 U.S. based advocacy and documentation organization devoted to "promoting the rights, voices and visions of indigenous peoples."

Awards

Former president of the American Ethnological Society
Elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1977
Grand Cross of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil's highest academic honor, in 1997
Anders Retzius gold medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, in 1998

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

External links

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.

Indigenous and minority rights

Rights	Ancestral domain Free, prior and informed consent Indigenous intellectual property Indigenous land rights Indigenous language Self-determination Traditional knowledge Treaty rights

Governmental organizations	Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Arctic Council Bureau of Indian Affairs Council of Indigenous Peoples Fundação Nacional do Índio National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (Philippines) United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Non-governmental and political organizations	Amazon Watch Assembly of First Nations Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador Congress of Aboriginal Peoples Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin Cultural Survival Friends of Peoples Close to Nature Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs National Indigenous Organization of Colombia Native American Rights Fund Survival International Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization Zapatista Army of National Liberation (more ...)

Issues	Civilizing mission Colonialism Settler colonialism Cultural appropriation Discovery doctrine Homeland Lands inhabited by indigenous peoples Bantustan American Indian reservation Indian reserve Ranchería Manifest destiny Plastic shaman Rainbow Warriors

Legal representation	Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007

Historical cases	2009 Peruvian political crisis Chiapas conflict Depopulation of Diego Garcia High Arctic relocation Indian removal Mapuche conflict Oka Crisis Residential Schools (America, Aotearoa, Canada, South Africa) Rubber boom San controversy Stolen Generations

Human Rights Indigenous rights • Minority rights

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