Raymond Firth is considered the founding father of British anthropology and developer of a still-thriving British form of economic anthropology.
Sir Raymond Firth (25 March 25, 1901—February 22, 2002) was born in Auckland, New Zealand and graduated in 1921 with a degree in Economics. He received his Ph.D. in 1927; his doctoral thesis was later published as Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Māori. After a stint at Sydney University he returned to the London School of Economics in 1933, where he remained until his retirement in 1968. His multi-volume work on the people of the island of Tikopia has been called "the most detailed and rich ethnography of any pre-literate group of people in the world."[1].His work is characterized by a particular empathy to individuals within a society.
Sir Raymond Firth appears in the following:
Acculturation in Relation to the Concepts of Health and Disease
Wednesday, February 01, 1956
