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Raymond Firth
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Sir Raymond William Firth CNZM FRAI FBA (25 March 1901 – 22 February 2002) was an ethnologist from New Zealand. As a result of Firth's ethnographic work, actual behaviour of societies (social organization) is separated from the idealized rules of behaviour within the particular society (social structure). He was a long serving professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, and is considered to have singlehandedly created a form of British economic anthropology.[1]
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![]() Firth c. 1965 | |
Born | (1901-03-25)25 March 1901 Auckland, New Zealand |
Died | 22 February 2002(2002-02-22) (aged 100) London, England |
Alma mater | Auckland University College (BA, MA, Dipl) London School of Economics (PhD) |
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Fields | Ethnology |
Thesis | Economic organisation of Polynesian societies: wealth and work of the Maori (1927) |
Academic advisors | Bronisław Malinowski |
Doctoral students | Edmund Leach Kenneth Little Joan Metge |
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