Francis Huxley (* 28. August 1923; † 29. Oktober 2016)[1] war ein britischer Botaniker, Anthropologe und Schriftsteller. Er war der Sohn des Biologen Julian Sorell Huxley, Neffe des Schriftstellers Aldous Huxley und Großneffe des Neurowissenschaftlers Andrew Fielding Huxley.
Sein wissenschaftliches Spektrum war außerordentlich breit. So befasste er sich unter anderem mit den Urubu-Indianern in Brasilien und den Voodoo-Gottheiten in Haiti. Eine illustrierte Geschichte von Riten, Symbolen, Tabus und ähnlichem ist sein Buch The Way Of The Sacred.
Schriften
- Affable Savages: An Anthropologist Among the Urubu Indians of Brazil. Viking, New York, 1957, ISBN 978-1879215276
- Peoples of the world. London: Blandford Press 1964 (Nachdrucke 1971, 1975).
- The Invisibles: Voodoo Gods in Haiti. Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1966
- The Way Of The Sacred. Doubleday, New York, 1974
- The Raven and the writing desk. London: Thames & Hudson, 1976
- The Dragon – nature of spirit, spirit of nature. London: Thames & Hudson, 1979
- The eye – the seer and the seen. London: Thames & Hudson, 1990
Literatur
Ron Roberts and Theodor Itten: Francis Huxley and The Human Condition. London: Routledge, 2020 (pb 2022)
Weblinks
Einzelnachweise
- ↑ A. David Napier: Francis Huxley obituary. In: The Guardian. 20. Dezember 2016, abgerufen am 10. Februar 2017 (englisch).
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Julia Arnold 1862–1908 | | Leonard Huxley 1860–1933 | | Rosalind Bruce 1890–1994 | | | | | | | | | | Jessie Huxley 1858–1927 | | Henry Huxley 1865–1946 | | Marian Huxley 1859–1887 | | John Collier 1850–1934 | | Ethel Huxley 1866–1941 |
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Julian Huxley 1887–1975 | | Aldous Huxley 1894–1963 | | David Bruce Huxley 1915–1992 | | Andrew Fielding Huxley 1917–2012 | | Richenda Pease 1925–2003 | | Oriana Huxley Waller | | Gervas Huxley 1894–1971 | | Elspeth Grant 1907–1997 | | | | Laurence Collier 1890–1976 | | |
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