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Francis Huxley (28 August 1923 – 29 October 2016) was a British botanist, anthropologist and author. He is a son of Julian Huxley. His brother was Anthony Julian Huxley. His uncle was Aldous Huxley. He was one of the founders of Survival International. Works. Affable Savages: An Anthropologist Among the Urubu Indians of Brazil.
20 de dic. de 2016 · In the early 1950s the anthropologist Francis Huxley, who has died aged 93, undertook pioneering fieldwork among the Urubu people of the Amazon basin.
Francis Huxley. Chronology. “Can Wisdom be in a silver rod or Love in a golden bowl?” William Blake. 1923: Baby Francis. 1936: Francis with Mama and brother Anthony. 1950: Young Francis. 1939: Francis with his parents and brother. 1944: Honkong, Francis in the Navy, right. 1960: Uncle Aldous. 1962: Julian and Aldous Huxley. 1967: Joan Wescott.
Francis Huxley (1923 – 2016) was a social anthropologist, traveller to unmapped lands of the mind, a mythologist, known for his ground-breaking narrative anthropology. After early research in the Brazilian Amazon, he ventured to Haiti to investigate the role of Voodoo in the healing of mental distress.
- Seeing The World Through Their Eyes
- A Practical Political Element
- The Fantastic Reality of Life
- A Call to Escape
- Fun and Love
Unusual for an anthropologist of his time, Huxley had no interest in using Western colonialist categories of thought in order to mould the customs, habits and practices of other cultures into a form which could be comfortingly digested within our own cerebral habits. In this regard he was light-years ahead of many of the debates in contemporary aca...
So, even as psychoanalysis was brought in to supply some of the missing ingredients to the anthropological enterprise, something profoundly important was missing from it. The failure to explicitly map racism was not the only problem. Huxley’s (1985) talk on ‘Anthropology and Psychoanalysis’ highlighted a number of excesses in the psychoanalytic uni...
Many writers have referenced the celebration of this sublime mystery as underpinning what Abraham Maslow called peak emotional experiences. For Baudelaire (2010, p.20), it was ‘the fantastic reality of life’, for Boym (2005, p.503) ‘the ordinary marvellous’, for Arendt the ‘miracle’ of freedom and for Benjamin (1999, p.63) ‘the renewal of existence...
Huxley also accorded people the right to experience the world in a manner consistent with their own customs. Though we now consider it a distinctly post-modern slant, he long ago saw a place for granting different cosmologies rights of co-existence. Raised as he was in the socially privileged bosom of the Huxley clan, educated at Gordonstoun School...
The kind of psychology which Huxley championed and which we endorse is a call to broaden the scope of enquiry into the human condition. It’s a call to forge a greater alliance between psychology, anthropology and the arts; one in which research is fully embedded in an investigator’s own conditions of living. In hindsight one can see Huxley’s life a...
22 de sept. de 2022 · In the 19th century, TH Huxley presented the new theories of evolution to High Victorian Christians, literal readers of Genesis, and heralded “the death of the divine”.
Where is Francis Huxley? Lost, it seems, in the Brazilian Jungle. All we know is, that together with the French linguist, Boudin and Brazilian Anthropologist, Darcy Riberio, he was on his way from Belem, via Pará, up the Gurupi river in the dense Amazonian rain forest, to conduct his first ethnographic fieldwork with the Ka’apor ...
