Burton Benedict papers, [ca.1944-1956].

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Burton Benedict papers, [ca.1944-1956].

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Miscellaneous papers related to the anthropologist's research in Mauritius and the Seychelles, ca.1950s - 1970s. Includes information on agricultural indebtedness of rural workers in Mauritius; census data from English River area of the Seychelles; papers related to the Social and Economic Survey in Mauritius, ca. 1944, including letter from British anthropologist, Sir Raymond Firth; financial and progress reports by the Colonial Fisheries Advisory Committee regarding fisheries in Mauritius and the Seychelles, 1944 and 1945; and address by E. B. Worthington on the marine fisheries of the East African Coast, 1945; History of the Blyth Brothers & Co., May 14, 1930.

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Blyth Brothers & Co.

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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...

Worthington, E. B.

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Benedict, Burton

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Anthropologist, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. Director of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology, 1988 - . From the description of Burton Benedict papers, [ca.1944-1956]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122576117 ...