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Between 1984 and 1986 , he was a visiting scholar at the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights where he conducted a study of international mechanisms for protecting the human rights of forest-dwelling Indian populations in lowland South America . He was also the founder and director of a hemispheric Indian documentation center called Indigena, Inc. in Berkeley , California ( 1973 1975 ), and the ''Anthropology Resource Center'' in Boston , Massachusetts (1975 1984). He has written extensively on indigenous peoples, environment and development issues in Latin America, and his book ''Victims of the Miracle: Development and the Indians of Brazil'' (Cambridge University Press, ); and the editor of ''Indigenous Views of Land and Environment'' (The World Bank, 1993 ) and, ''Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Development'' (The World Bank, 1995 ). Dr. Davis has taught at the Federal University Of Rio De Janeiro , Harvard University , University Of California, Berkeley , the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology , Boston University , Clark University , the University Of Massachusetts and most recently at Georgetown University . He received his undergraduate degree in Sociology and Anthropology at Antioch College ( 1965 ) and his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University ( 1970 ). He also did special studies in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science ( 1963 and 1964 ), and doctoral research among Maya n Indians in Guatemala ( 1967 1969 ). PUBLICATIONS
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