Raymond William Firth

Prof. Sir Raymond William Firth MA
Born	1901
Died	2002
Residence	2 Gordon Place, WC1 [1924] Otara, Otahuku, Auckland
Occupation	anthropologist
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow elected_AI 1924.12.16

Notes

Office Notes

RAI Council 1934-35 Member
RAI Council 1935-36 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1936-37 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1937-38 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1938-39 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1940-41 Member
RAI Council 1941-42 Member
RAI Council 1942-43 Member
RAI Council 1944-45 Vice President
and Member
RAI Council 1945-46 Vice President
RAI Council 1946-47 Vice President
RAI Council 1947-48 Vice President
RAI Council 1949-50 Member
RAI Council 1950-51 Member
RAI Council 1951-52 Member
RAI Council 1953-54 President
RAI Council 1954-55 President

House Notes

proposed by C.G. Seligman, seconded by E.N. Fallaize 18 Nov. 1924
1959 HML Problem and assumption in an anthropological study of religion

Notes From Elsewhere

Sir Raymond William Firth, CNZM, 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 London School of Economics, and is considered to have singlehandedly created a form of British economic anthropology

Publications

House Publications

Economic psychology of the Maori 1925
Maori store-houses of today 1925
Marriage and the classificatory system of relationship 1930

Related Material Details

RAI Material

lantern slides
census

Other Material

papers at LSE