FIRTH, Sir Raymond William, 1901-2002, Kt, anthropologist 1902-2001

Firth Rosemary d 2001

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Australian national university

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LSE, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Colonial Social Science Research Council

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Malinowski, Bronisław, 1884-1942

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Firth, Raymond, 1901-2002

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Sir Raymond Firth was born in 1901 in New Zealand. He was educated at Auckland University College, where he specialised in economics and wrote his MA thesis on the local kauri gum industry. In 1924 he came to the London School of Economics to work for a higher degree in economics, but on arrival changed his subject to anthropology and completed a PhD on the primitive economics of the New Zealand Maori under the supervision of Malinowski. After obtaining his PhD, Firth returned to New Zealand and...

Association Of Social Anthropologists

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Colonial Office

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Proposals to introduce income tax to Kenya Colony and to the Straits Settlements were made in 1933 and 1940 respectively. In the case of Kenya there was strong opposition from colonists working in trade and commerce, who viewed the proposed legislation as detrimental to their economic viability and a removal of one of the material benefits of living and working in the colony. The petition was spearheaded by Lord Francis Scott, a son of the Duke of Buccleuch, and a Member of the Executive Council...