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We, the Tikopia
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Primitive Polynesian economy
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Religion: A Humanist Interpretation
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Religion:A Humanist Interpretation represents a lifetime's work on the anthropology of religion from a rathr unusual viewpoint.Raymond Firth treats religion as a human art,capable of great intellectual and artistic achievemints,but also of complex manipulation to seve human interests of those who believe in itand operate it.Teligion may also be ...
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Malay Fishermen: Their Peasant Economy
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The work of the gods in Tikopia
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First published in 1939 and long out of print, this book remains unique as the only full and detailed account by a social anthropologist of a complete pagan Polynesian ritual cycle. This new single-volume edition omits some of the Tikopia vernacular texts, but includes a new theoretical introduction; postscripts have also been supplied to some of ...
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Tikopia ritual and belief
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Capital,saving and credit in peasant societies : studies from Asia,Oceania,the Caribbean and Middle America
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Raymond Firth (Editor), B. S. Yamey
The formation and management of capital are among the central issues in economic growth, especially in 'under-developed' countries, and form the main theme in this volume. The societies examined vary widely, both geographically and also in terms of types of social and economic structures. First published in 1964.
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Themes in Economic Anthropology
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The main focus of the volume - the processes of choice and decision-making in different economic systems - offers exceptional scope for the convergence of economic and anthropological perspectives. It concentrates on transactions that both express and influence social relationships and values. Covering a wide geographic area there are specific ...
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Tikopia Songs
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Sir Raymond Firth is one of the most distinguished British anthropologists, and one internationally acclaimed. His work here forms part of one of the fullest and most professional ethnographic accounts by any anthropologist of a non-industrial people, an account which extends over many years. This book is about the songs of a Western Pacific ...
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Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies
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Contemporary problems of economic and social change have obliged social scientists from different fields to learn much about each others' work as well as about the specific problems they are together seeking to solve. The bearing of economic conditions on the character of a social system has become more apparent to anthropologists, and, similarly, ...
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Symbols: Public and Private
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We, the Tikopia: A Sociological Study of Kinship in Primitive Polynesia
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Recognized as a major work when first published, this title has, over the years, become a classic. Forming the basis of modern social anthropology, We the Tikiopia stands in the forefront of its literature. The book is an excellent example of fieldwork analysis of a primitive society; a complete account of the working of a primitive kinship system ...
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Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific: Volume 66
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Richard Feinberg (Editor), Raymond William Firth
An ethnographic exploration of the rise of new forms of leadership at community and national levels with islanders are synthesising traditional and Western models.
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Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski
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Rank and religion in Tikopia; a study in Polynesian paganism and conversion to Christianity
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Tikopia Songs: Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands
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Sir Raymond Firth is one of the most distinguished British anthropologists, and one internationally acclaimed. His work here forms part of one of the fullest and most professional ethnographic accounts by any anthropologist of a non-industrial people, an account which extends over many years. This book is about the songs of a Western Pacific ...
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Art and Life in New Guinea
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Economics of the New Zealand Maori
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The sceptical anthropologist?, social anthropology and Marxist views on society
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Human Types
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Based on a wide range of field studies, Sir Raymond Firth discusses the geographical and historical factors that determine the development of racial groups; shows how culture is an out-growth of natural environment; and describes how various societies have solved the economic, technological, social and sexual problems that confront them. The book ...
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Essays on Social Organization and Values
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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 ...
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Elements of Social Organization
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Raymond Firth
An illuminating introduction to the methods and problems of social anthropology, this book draws on a wide range of illustrations, including Raymond Firth's own experiences in New Zealand, Malaya and the Solomon Islands. The concept of social organisation is discussed with special reference to the role of individual choice and decision in social ...
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Man and Culture: an Evaluation of the Works of Bronislaw Malinowski
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Ein Tagebuch Im Strikten Sinn Des Wortes
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Raymond; Malinowski Firth, Bronislaw
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Human types, an introduction to social anthropology
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