Title: David Maybury-Lewis personal archive [accessions],
Authors: Maybury-Lewis, David.
Year: 1938
Subjects: Maybury-Lewis, David.
Abstract: Accession 19111 : the accession chiefly consists of research and subject files (articles, notes, correspondence) on various topics (kinship patterns, plant life, local myths, the impact of the sugar industry on indigenous peoples, economic cooperatives, models of economic development) related to the indigenous peoples of North and South America, particularly Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. Writings by Maybury-Lewis in this accession include drafts and notes related to the writing and producing of the book and television show “Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World” and a government report on indigenous peoples in Paraguay. Harvard teaching materials (syllabi, lecture notes) refer to such topics as structure and dialectics, social anthropology, social theory, linguistics, and indigenous kinship. Harvard related materials include files compiled by the Harvard Institute for International Development on countries with indigenous peoples and Anthropology Department administrative files including faculty search files, and Core Committee and Faculty Council committee files. Other files in this accession include “Notes General Files” which include curriculum study material, news clippings, articles and reprints, conference papers, correspondence, bibliographies, and notes; and alphabetically arranged correspondence and professional activities files that document Maybury-Lewis’s interaction with colleagues and publishers, and refer to his participation at professional conferences and meetings, 1938, 1950-2001 (49 cubic feet, 49 record cartons).