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David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis (born in Hyderabad, Pakistan 1929-) is a distinguished anthropologist, prominent ethnologist of lowland South America, indefatigable activist for indigenous peoples' human rights and professor emeritus of Harvard University. David Maybury-Lewis' D.Phil. was from Oxford University, and he joined the Harvard faculty in 1960, and eventually became the Edward C. Henderson Professor of Anthropology until his recent retirement. His extensive ethnographic fieldwork was conducted primarily among Amazonian peoples in central Brazil, which culminated is his classic ethnography among the Xavante, as well as post-modernist renditons (see publications below). 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." *
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