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  1. Raymond Firth. 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).

  2. Mar 21, 2024 · Sir Raymond Firth (born March 25, 1901, Auckland, New Zealand—died February 22, 2002, London, England) was a New Zealand social anthropologist best known for his research on the Maori and other peoples of Oceania and Southeast Asia.

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  3. Sir Raymond William Firth (March 25, 1901 - February 22, 2002) was a New Zealand ethnologist, especially well-known for his study of Maori culture. He was a pioneer of economic anthropology and a leading figure at the London School of Economics.

  4. Mar 28, 2002 · With the death of Raymond Firth on 22 February, anthropology has lost one of its giants. Firth's 80-year career encompassed the development of the modern form of the subject.

    • Bradd Shore
    • antbs@emory.edu
    • 2002
  5. Sir Raymond Firth, an anthropologist who wrote extensively on the cultures of remote Polynesian islands and was noted for his close attention to scientific evidence, died on Feb. 22 in London. He...

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  7. Raymond Firth was a prominent British anthropologist who studied Pacific societies, economic theory, and social organization. He taught at LSE and influenced many students, and he was a Marxist of sorts who emphasized social choice and innovation.

  8. Biography. Raymond Firth was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1901, educated at Auckland grammar school and graduated in economics from Auckland University College. In 1924 he came to the London School of Economics to study economics and in 1928 to 1929 went to research as an anthropologist in Tikopia, a Polynesian island in Solomon Islands ...

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