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Dates: during 2007-2007
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...chair of the anthropology department from 1971 and 1981, as a tireless advocate for the rights of indigenous peoples around the world. Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82 recalled his extraordinary empathy. He said that Maybury-Lewis “fought heroically?? for the peoples he worked with and “always respected other human beings.” In 1972, with his wife Pia Maybury-Lewis, he founded Cultural Survival, Inc., an advocacy and documentation organization seeking to promote the rights and cultures of indigenous peoples. A notice...

Author: By Emmeline D. Francis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Anthropology Leader Dies At 78 | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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