Francis Huxley

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Summary

Francis Huxley (1923 - ) is a British anthropologist. He has traveled widely, particularly in the Americas, as an anthropologist working for various universities and institutions.

He undertook major field work among a tribe of Brazilian Indians, exploring 17,000 miles of the Amazon basin and studying its native populations; he did early work with Humphrey Osmond in Canada, has reported on the use of psychedelic snuff by Yanomamo Indians, and documented the early use of LSD in the West and in the third world.

His writing was influential in developing theories on the Unity of Sacred/Profane (see Vital Unconscious and Biocentric Principle).

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