Firth, Raymond, 1901-2002

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Summary: Sir Raymond William Firth was an ethnologist from New Zealand. As a result of Firth's ethnographic work, actual behaviour of societies is separated from the idealized rules of behaviour within the particular society. 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. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Born: 1901-03-25 [2][6]
Birth Place: Auckland [2][6]
Died: 2002-02-22 [2][6]
Death Place: London [2][6]
Country: Great Britain [2]; New Zealand [2]
Language: English [3][5]
Occupation: Etnologs [5]; Antropologs [5]; anthropologist [6]; academic [6]
Employer: London School of Economics and Political Science [6]
Field of Activity: Etnoloģija [5]; Antropoloģija [5]
Educated at: London School of Economics and Political Science [6]; Auckland Grammar School [6]; University of Auckland [6]
Country of Education: United Kingdom [6]; New Zealand [6]
Archives at: LSE Library Archives and Special Collections [6]
Encyclopædia Britannica: Biography [6]
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Biography (requires subscription) [6]
Yale LUX: Entity [6]
Notable Names Database: Profile [6]
British Museum person-institution thesaurus: Entry [6]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. Library of Congress; 5. National Library of Latvia; 6. Wikidata

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