David maybury-lewis biography

David Maybury-Lewis, a Harvard anthropologist who served as a tireless advocate for indigenous cultures and peoples, died Dec. 2 at his home in Cambridge, Mass.

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Maybury-Lewis passed away after a long, difficult struggle with Parkinson’s disease, according to his family.

A social anthropologist with a towering international reputation, Maybury-Lewis was a deeply committed supporter of the rights of the peoples that he studied.

He worked extensively with central Brazilian Indian peoples affected by what he termed “developmentalism”: destructive development projects, of national aDonald Pfister chosen as new dean of Harvard Summer Schoold international origins, that pay little heed to the original peoples and the environments in which they live.

“David Maybury-Lewis brought attention to the very critical matter of cultures being destroyed by globalization and industrialization,” says Nur Yalman, professor of so