Background
Maybury-Lewis, David Henry Peter was born on May 5, 1929 in Hyderabad, Pakistan. Son of Sydney Alan and Constance Louise (Hambleton) Maybury-L. came to the United States, 1960.
Maybury-Lewis, David Henry Peter was born on May 5, 1929 in Hyderabad, Pakistan. Son of Sydney Alan and Constance Louise (Hambleton) Maybury-L. came to the United States, 1960.
Bachelor of Arts, Trinity Hall, Cambridge (England) University, 1952;Master of Arts, Trinity Hall, Cambridge (England) University, 1956;Master of Arts, University of Oxford, 1956;Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, 1960;A.M. (honorary), Harvard University, 1966.
Member faculty, Harvard University, since 1960;professor social anthropology, Harvard University, since 1969;department chairman anthropology, Harvard University, 1973-1981. Ford Foundation consultant, Brazil, since 1968. President Cultural Survival, Inc., since 1972.
Served to Second lieutenant British Army, 1948-1949. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, Société Suisse des Américanistes, American Anthropological Association (Distinguished Service award 1988), Royal Anthropological Institute. Member Association Social Anthropologists, American Ethnological Society (president 1980-1981), Latin American Studies Association.
Married Elsebet Helga Henningsen, April 6, 1953. Children: Alan Biorn, Niels Anthony.