George Kingsley Roth
| George Kingsley Roth BA MSc | |||||||||
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| Born | 1903 | ||||||||
| Died | 1960 | ||||||||
| Residence |
c/o Colonial Secretary's Office, Suva, Fiji Naduruloulou, Fiji [1935] Zanzibar, E. Africa [1937] | ||||||||
| Occupation |
administrative ethnographer | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
1930.02.25 nominated
1960.10.06 death noted
District Commissioner, Fiji
Notes From Elsewhere
GEORGE KINGSLEY ROTH. 1903-1960. HE SUDDEN DEATH of George Kingsley Roth, C.M.G., O.B.E.,. T M.Sc., B.A., in London in June, 1960, deprived ethnology of the leading. Fiji authority. From the early 1930's, from the date of his first appointment to the Colonial. Service as a District Commissioner,
George Kingsley Roth was the second generation in a family remarkable for the cultural and geographical diversity of its very major contribution to colonial administration, anthropology and public health
Publications
External Publications
The Fijian way of life
House Publications
Fiji: the fire walk in Fiji. Man 1933, 49
Some obsolescent customs in Fiji, Man 1933, 67
Fire walking, Man 1933, 80
Some unrecorded details of tatuing in Fiji. Man 1933, 167
Manufacture of bark cloth in Fiji. JRAI 1934
Pottery making in Fiji. JRAI 1935
Notes on the Fijian 'fire walking' ceremony. Man 1936, 235
A composite 'Tambua' from Fiji. Man 1937, 155
Related Material Details
RAI Material
census
Other Material
PRM: papers
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives: Fiji material
