In this interview professor David Maybury-Lewis recalls his fondness when playing with camel care keepers in Pakistan, where he was born, becoming, later on, a young researcher who stated up his career by living among the Xavante and Xerente Indians in Brazil in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Adding personal reminiscences to professional memories from the time he spent in this country, Mr. Maybury-Lewis also draws an outline of the Brazilian anthropology in the past fifty years.