The Invisibles, Voodoo Gods in Haiti, by Francis Huxley

Francis Huxley is a British anthropologist, the son of Sir Julian Huxley, and the author of several books. He was educated in the United Kingdom at Gordonstoun School and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained degrees in Zoology and Social Anthropoly. For five years he was a Research Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford. He has traveled widely, particularly in the Americas, as an anthropologist working for various universities and institutions. Huxley 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. Francis Huxley lives in Santa Fe, NM.

The Invisibles - Voodoo Gods in Haiti:
A definitve reference to the rutals of magic as they are practiced by the indigenous peoples of Haiti. Francis Huxley holds in view throughout the pages, the vivid human-ness of the subject of this work, and the result is a compelling and intimately beautiful narrative.