Raymond Firth
Emeritus Professor Sir Raymond William Firth CNZM (born March 25, 1901 in Auckland; died February 22, 2002 in London) was an ethnologist from New Zealand. As a result of Firth's ethnographic work, actual behavior of societies (social organization) is seperated from the idealized rules of behavior within the particular society (social structure).
He was a long serving Professor of Anthropology at London School of Economics.
Works
- The Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Maori (1927)
- We the Tikopia: A Sociological Study of Kinship in Primitive Polynesia (1936)
- Elements of Social Organization
- Tikopia Songs: Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands (1990)
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