Essays on Social Organisation and Values: London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology

by Raymond Firth

Brings together a number of papers on anthropological subjects. All these papers relate in different ways to the author's continuing interest in the study of social process, especially in the significance within a social context of individual choice and decision.

334 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1969

About the author

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.