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Henry Lauwrence Simms
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Henry Lawrence Simms (born March 4, 1929) is a Canadian anthropologist and biologist, know for his work “Ethnology: a refutation of the mind”. Simms was born in New Brunswick, Canada, and later emigrated to South America, shortly after graduating from Yale University's Department of Anthropology (M.A. in 1958). He has also a M.A. in Anthropology at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, the country where he lead research on Amazonian tribes from the Corubos family, such as the Mairuna and the Marubo. He was a member of the FUNAI from 1964 to 1976. It was also in 1976 when he published “Ethnology: a refutation of the mind”. In 1963 he presented an study on Joseph Campbell’s four volume book “The Masks of God”, which he declared to be more of a proof than a refutation of the “elementary ideas”. |
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