Raymond Firth

Raymond Firth’s Followers (2)

member photo
member photo

Raymond Firth


Born
in Auckland, New Zealand
March 25, 1901

Died
February 22, 2002

Website

Genre

Influences


Sir Raymond William Firth CNZM FRAI FBA 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. ...more

Average rating: 3.6 · 134 ratings · 11 reviews · 62 distinct works
We, the Tikopia: A Sociolog...

3.33 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1963 — 27 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Human Types

2.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1958 — 34 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Elements of Social Organisa...

3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1981 — 36 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Symbols: Public and Private

3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1973 — 17 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Tikopia Ritual and Belief

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 17 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Religion: A Humanist Interp...

2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Man and Culture; An Evaluat...

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1957 — 23 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Themes in Economic Anthropo...

2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1970 — 14 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Essays on Social Organisati...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1969 — 10 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Primitive Economics of the ...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Raymond Firth…