Affable Savages An Anthropologist among the Urubu Indians of Brazil

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. Hardcover. In quite good condition./In quite good condition.. Octavo, [22.5cm/9inches], full gilt-embossed regal burgundy-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. , indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Manchester Guardian's obituary noted: "In 1972 Francis was a member of a four-person mission, sponsored by the Aborigines’ Protection Society and aided by the Brazilian government, to investigate the plight of Native South American tribes. Their report, Tribes of the Amazon Basin in Brazil (1973), identified groups threatened by Brazilian economic expansion and described the sad impact on their religious, spiritual and psychological health and wellbeing. ... Born in Oxford, Francis was the son of Julian Huxley, the noted biologist and first director general of Unesco, and his Swiss wife, Juliette (nee Baillot), a writer and sculptor. He joined a remarkable dynasty that included Julian’s brother, the author Aldous Huxley, and half-brother, the physiologist and Nobel laureate Andrew Huxley. Francis was also the great-grandson of Charles Darwin’s friend Thomas Henry Huxley, and as a child knew such luminaries as Bertrand Russell and TE Lawrence".