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Essays on Social Organisation and Values

Essays on Social Organisation and Values( )
Author: Firth, Raymond
Series edited by: Bear, Laura
Series title:LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology Ser.
ISBN:978-1-85973-894-8
Publication Date:Jan 1969
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:Berg Publishers
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $130.00
Book Description:

In this volume Professor Firth has brought together and commented upon a number of his papers on anthropological subjects published over the last thirty years. All these essays relate in different ways to his continuing interest in the study of social process, especially in the significance within a social context of individual choice and decision. Although some specialist studies are included, e.g. the group of papers dealing with the Polynesian island of Tikopia, the main themes of...
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Book Details
Pages:344
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.5 x 0.94 Inches
Book Weight:1.29 Pounds
Author Biography
Firth, Raymond (Author)
Raymond Firth, a New Zealand-born English anthropologist, was Bronislaw Malinowski's successor at the London School of Economics. In 1928 he first visited the tiny island of Tikopia in the Solomons, and his monograph We, the Tikopia (1936) established his fame.

A devoted student of Malinowski, he established no school of anthropological thought, but his productive scholarship and academic statesmanship won him an important reputation in social anthropology.

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