Letter. 1927.

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Letter. 1927.

Letter to Edge Partington, Feb. 10th 1927. Discusses anthropological matters in New Zealand and the Pacific.

6 p.

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Partington, Edge

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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...