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Huxley in Haiti

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. From his time there he produced a widely read sympathetic text of the social-psychological functions of Voodoo and accrued a large collection of personal photographs (800) of the people he encountered, both in their everyday and ritual settings. This album is a companion volume to our previous biography ; Francis Huxley and the human condition ; Anthropology Ancestry and Knowledge, as well as being a visual record of Francis' time in Haiti and a testimony to his ability to enter open-mindedly into the world of a people who have been much misunderstood, (www.francishuxley.com)