Raymond Firth
Raymond Firth | |
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Firth c. 1965 | |
| Born | 25 March 1901 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Died | 22 February 2002 (aged 100) London, England |
| Alma mater | Auckland University College (BA, MA, Dipl) London School of Economics (PhD) |
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| Scientific career | |
| 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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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.