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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.
1923: Francis John Heathorn Huxley, is born, 28th August, at Holywell, Oxford. “He was another marvel of delight, placid, contented, hardly crying at all, with large grey-green eyes, and melting smile,” as his mother describes him. 1925: Julian becomes Chair of Zoology at Kings College, London.
20 de dez. de 2016 · Tue 20 Dec 2016 08.19 EST. In the early 1950s the anthropologist Francis Huxley, who has died aged 93, undertook pioneering fieldwork among the Urubu people of the Amazon basin.
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 ...
- 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...
Unpublished Book Manuscripts (Francis Huxley Archive). 1957 Darwin Film. Planned together with Ellen Huxley for National Educational TV. 1965 Body and Mind in Anthropology. 1977 Embryos and Ancestors. 1978 / 2003 Forty Two. 1988 Aldous – A film about the life of Aldous Huxley (with Mary Pjerrou). 1997 The Mutual Self.
30 de mai. de 2022 · From the Villon Films Archive collections. Extract. Full duration: 2:02:53. To order the full film or clips in high/lo-res or to find out more visit:http://w...
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