Admission is free and open to the public.
A short reception will immediately follow Dr. Maybury-Lewis talk. Shared by the Departments of History, Political Science, and Sociology and Anthropology, it enables these departments to bring distinguished scholars to ISU to deliver a series of public lectures and to meet with faculty and students. Maybury-Lewis, who was born in Hyderabad, Pakistan, in 1929, took his B.A. in Languages and Literature at Cambridge University, his M.A. in Social Sciences at the University of Sao Paulo and his doctorate in Anthropology at Oxford. He came to the United States in 1960 to join the Harvard faculty, serving as chairman of the Department of Anthropology from 1973 to 1981. He has had a long association with Latin America and particularly with Brazil.