A study in ritual modification : the work of the gods in Tikopia in 1929 and 1952,

by Raymond Firth

31 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1963

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.