Cultural Survival (founded 1972) is a nonprofit group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts , United States, which is dedicated to defending the human rights of indigenous peoples .
6-506: Cultural Survival was founded by anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis and his wife, Pia, in response to the opening up of the Amazonian and South American hinterlands during the 1960s, and the drastic effects this had on Indigenous inhabitants. It has since worked with Indigenous communities in Asia, Africa, South America, North America, and Australia, becoming the leading US-based organization defending
12-521: The University of Oxford , where he first studied modern languages, and later earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in anthropology. In 1960, he joined the Harvard faculty, and was Edward C. Henderson Professor of Anthropology there from 1966 until he retired in 2004. His extensive ethnographic fieldwork was conducted primarily among indigenous peoples in central Brazil , which culminated in his ethnography among
18-453: The Xavante , as well as post-modernist renditions. In 1972, he co-founded with his wife Pia Cultural Survival , the leading US-based advocacy and documentation organization devoted to "promoting the rights, voices and visions of indigenous peoples ." This article about an anthropologist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an ethnologist
24-565: The preservation of all peoples and their cultures", flourishing for ten years before eventually closing in 2005. David Maybury-Lewis David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis (5 May 1929 – 2 December 2007) was a British anthropologist , ethnologist of lowland South America , activist for indigenous peoples ' human rights , and professor emeritus of Harvard University . Born in Hyderabad , Sindh (now in Pakistan ), Maybury-Lewis attended
30-662: The rights of Indigenous Peoples around the world. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cultural Survival also has a satellite office for the Guatemala Radio Project in Guatemala. As of 2022, Cultural Survival had a four-star rating from Charity Navigator . The Program on Nonviolent Sanctions in Conflict (PNS), a research division of Harvard's Center for International Affairs , was created by Gene Sharp in 1983. Its focus
36-542: Was the use of nonviolent sanctions as a substitute for violent interventions. Sharp also founded the independent non-profit Albert Einstein Institution (AEI) a few months later, which became the funding body for the Program. In 1995 (some years after Sharp's departure) PNS merged with Cultural Survival, creating the Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival (PONSACS). PONSACS focussed on "nonviolent alternatives for
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