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 ethnographic fieldwork was conducted primarily among Amazonian peoples in central Brazil, which culminated is his classic ethnography among the Xavante (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." ^*

Major Publications

• Akwe-Shavante society.^*
• The Savage and the Innocent.^*
• Dialectical Societies: The Ge and Bororo of Central Brazil.^*
• The Attraction of Opposites: Thought and Society in the Dualistic Mode^*
• Prospects for Plural Societies: 1982 Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society (Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society).^*
• Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World, ''^*
• Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the State.^*
• The Politics of Ethnicity:Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States.^*

External links

• Cultural Survival

Awards

• Former president of the American Ethnological Society
• Grand Cross of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil's highest academic honor, in 1997
• Anders Retzuis gold medal of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography, in 1998

Anthropologists | Ethnologists | Ethnography | South America | Harvard University faculty | Inductees of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit