As some of you know, I recently finished a video tribute to the late anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis with one of my former professors and mentors, Harald Prins, and my good friend and former classmate, Jessie Stone. A couple weeks back it had its debut screening at Oxford University at the annual Society for Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) meeting. I uploaded it today and wanted to post the link for those interested. It was made on an extremely low budget (mainly recycled footage from Maybury-Lewis’ television series Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World along with some pictures and a voice over), but nonetheless I was pleased to have the opportunity to honor such a great humanitarian and anthropologist.
Along with his wife, Pia, Maybury-Lewis co-founded Cultural Survival, an organization dedicated to promoting and advocating for the rights of indigenous peoples around the world. A former Kansas State anthropology student, Lucas Bessire (now at NYU) recently published an insightful piece in the Cultural Survival Quarterly titled Isolation that provides a glimpse into his own fieldwork with Ayoreo Indians in the Gran Chaco near the border between Paraguay and Bolivia. There are many other quality publications on their website, available for free. I suggest you check them out.
I wish I could embed the video here, but my wordpress account won’t allow it I haven’t found a suitable plugin that will let me do so. You can click the link below and wait for it to buffer (it’s fairly large so it will take a bit), or you can just go FILE / SAVE PAGE AS to download the file. Enjoy!
Among Xavante Friends: A Tribute to David Maybury-Lewis
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Fun. Add to your bookmarks. And how long it took to write articles?