Como resultado do trabalho etnográfico de Firth, o comportamento real das sociedades (organização social) é separado das regras idealizadas de comportamento dentro da sociedade particular (estrutura social). Ele foi professor de antropologia por muito tempo na London School of Economics, e é considerado o criador sozinho de uma forma de antropologia econômica britânica.[1][2][3][4]
- 'The Korekore Pa' Journal of the Polynesian Society 34:1–18 (1925)
- 'The Māori Carver' Journal of the Polynesian Society 34:277–291 (1925)
- Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Māori London: George Routledge and Sons (1929) (com prefácio de R.H. Tawney)
- We the Tikopia: A Sociological Study of Kinship in Primitive Polynesia London: Allen and Unwin (1936)
- Human Types: An Introduction to Social Anthropology (1958)
- Primitive Polynesian Economy London: Routledge & Sons, Ltd (1939)
- The Work of the Gods in Tikopia Melbourne: Melbourne University Press (1940, 1967)
- 'The Coastal People of Kelantan and Trengganu, Malaya' Geographical Journal 101(5/6):193-205 (1943)
- Pacific Islands Volume 2: Eastern Pacific (ed, com J. W. Davidson e Margaret Davies), Naval Intelligence Division Geographical Handbook Series, HMSO (dezembro de 1944)
- Pacific Islands Volume 3: Western Pacific (Tonga to the Solomon Islands) (ed, com J. W. Davidson e Margaret Davies), Naval Intelligence Division Geographical Handbook Series, HMSO (agosto de 1945)
- Pacific Islands Volume 4: Western Pacific (New Guinea and Islands Northwards) (ed, com J. W. Davidson e Margaret Davies), Naval Intelligence Division Geographical Handbook Series, HMSO (agosto de 1945)
- Pacific Islands Volume 1: General Survey (ed, com J. W. Davidson e Margaret Davies), Naval Intelligence Division Geographical Handbook Series, HMSO (Agosto 1945)
- Malay Fishermen: Their Peasant Economy Londres: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner (1946)
- Elements of Social Organization Londres: Watts and Co (1951)
- 'Social Organization and Social Change' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 84:1–20 (1954)
- 'Some Principles of Social Organization' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 85:1–18 (1955)
- Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Malinowski Raymond Firth (ed) (1957)
- Economics of the New Zealand Māori Wellington: Government Printer (1959) (edição revisada de Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Māori (1929))
- Social Change in Tikopia (1959)
- Essays on Social Organization and Values London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology, no. 28. Londres: Athlone Press (1964)
- Tikopia Ritual and Belief (1967)
- 'Themes in Economic Anthropology: A General Comment' in Themes in Economic Anthropology Raymond Firth, ed. 1–28. Londres: Tavistock (1967)
- Rank and Religion in Tikopia (1970)
- History and Traditions of Tikopia (1971)
- Symbols: Public and Private (1973)
- 'The Sceptical Anthropologist? Social Anthropology and Marxist Views on Society' in Marxist Analyses and Social Anthropology M. Bloch, ed. 29–60. London: Malaby (1975)
- 'An Appraisal of Modern Social Anthropology' Annual Review of Anthropology 4:1–25 (1975)
- 'Whose Frame of Reference? One Anthropologist's Experience' Anthropological Forum 4(2):9–31 (1977)
- 'Roles of Women and Men in a Sea Fishing Economy: Tikopia Compared with Kelantan' in The Fishing Culture of the World: Studies in Ethnology, Cultural Ecology and Folklore Béla Gunda (ed) Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó 1145–1170 (1984)
- Taranga Fakatikopia ma Taranga Fakainglisi: Tikopia-English Dictionary (1985)
- Tikopia Songs: Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands. [S.l.]: Cambridge University Press. 2006
- Religion: A Humanist Interpretation (1996)
- 'Tikopia Dreams: Personal Images of Social Reality' Journal of the Polynesian Society 110(1):7–29 (2001)
- 'The Creative Contribution of Indigenous People to Their Ethnography' Journal of the Polynesian Society 110(3):241–245 (2001)
Os artigos de Sir Raymond Firth são mantidos na London School of Economics – incluindo sua coleção fotográfica
Huntsman, Judith (2003). "Raymond Firth (1901–2002)". American Anthropologist.
Foks, Freddy (2020) 'Raymond Firth, Between Economics and Anthropology' , in BEROSE – International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology , Paris.
