ANTHROPOLOGIST

Raymond Firth

1901 - 2002

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Sir Raymond William Firth (25 March 1901 – 22 February 2002) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond Firth is the 64th most popular anthropologist (down from 47th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from New Zealand (down from 31st in 2019) and the most popular New Zealander Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Raymond Firth ranks 64 out of 93. Before her are Arjun Appadurai, Gayle Rubin, James C. Scott, Max Gluckman, Robert Lowie, and Georges Balandier. After her are Fiona Graham, Julio Caro Baroja, Ashley Montagu, Jack Goody, Dmitry Anuchin, and Helen Fisher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Raymond Firth ranks 232. Before her are Roy Urquhart, Harry Partch, Andrée Brunet, Joseph De Combe, Max Lorenz, and Mark Donskoy. After her are Aleksandrs Čaks, Cyril of Bulgaria, Enrique Santos Discépolo, Paul Fritsch, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, and Norah Borges. Among people deceased in 2002, Raymond Firth ranks 211. Before her are Lou Thesz, Jean Dockx, Indra Devi, Bill Bruce, Georges Beaucourt, and Kaisa Parviainen. After her are Oskar Sala, Francisco Cabañas, Leopold Vietoris, Nils Bohlin, Richard Helms, and Ruth Williams Khama.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Raymond Firth ranks 57 out of 303. Before her are Manu Bennett (1969), Roy Kerr (1934), Gary Thain (1948), Ngaio Marsh (1895), Rob Hall (1961), and Ronald Syme (1903). After her are Warren Cole (1940), Taika Waititi (1975), Vaughan Jones (1952), Yvette Williams (1929), Antony Starr (1975), and Howden Ganley (1941).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In New Zealand

Among anthropologists born in New Zealand, Raymond Firth ranks 1. 

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