Raymond Firth (1901–2002)
Autor(a) de Human Types: An Introduction to Social Anthropology
About the 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 mostrar mais established no school of anthropological thought, but his productive scholarship and academic statesmanship won him an important reputation in social anthropology. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Raymond Firth
Essays on Social Organisation and Values (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology) (1969) 11 exemplares
Capital, saving and credit in peasant societies : studies from Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean and Middle America (1969) 8 exemplares
Families and their relatives : kinship in a middle-class sector of London : an anthropological study (1969) 7 exemplares
Institutionen in primitiven Gesellschaften 3 exemplares
Social change in Tikopia : re-study of a Polynesian community after a generation (2013) 3 exemplares
Leadership and change in the Western Pacific : essays presented to Sir Raymond Firth on the occasion of his ninetieth… (1996) 2 exemplares
Tipos humanos 2 exemplares
Tikopia Songs: Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands (Cambridge Studies in Oral and… (1991) 2 exemplares
Associated Works
Kulttuuri ja talous. Kirjoituksia taloudellisesta antropologiasta (1987) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Firth, Sir Raymond William
- Data de nascimento
- 1901-03-25
- Data de falecimento
- 2002-02-22
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- New Zealand
- Local de nascimento
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Auckland, New Zealand
England, UK - Educação
- Auckland University College
London School of Economics - Ocupações
- anthropologist
ethnologist - Organizações
- University of Sydney
London School of Economics - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Fellow, British Academy
New Zealand Order of Merit (Companion)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 31
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 451
- Popularidade
- #54,392
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 5
- ISBN
- 109
- Línguas
- 2
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
In the second half of the book, he analyses the Symbolism of food, hair, the body in greeting and parting, national flags, and giving and getting. In the meaning-making process, individuals behave as persons but within collectives. He says: "Unlike some of my colleagues, I argue that important problems of interpretation and clues to understanding lie in analysis of such intricate conjunction between the individual and the collective symbolization." [403] Most of his examples bear on issues of status. Life in society can be grasped "only in symbolic forms". For actions to be effective, socially viable and personally meaningful, the symbolic forms must be understood.
Broadly speaking, food exchanges symbolize basic social relationships; mode of wearing hair makes a statement about personality and attitude toward authority; flag display symbolizes communal political identity; greeting patterns expose views of relative social position.
Anthropologists debate over why humans felt constrained to invent symbols with religious attributes such as "unobservabless", omnipresence, or spiritual sanctity. Firth clearly receives "belief" data, including Christianity, Islam, and other "truths", as worthy of investigation, using description, sorting (ordering), and even logical analysis of implications. [406] He exemplifies his approach with a dive into the question of the "ethnicity of Jesus", challenging the assumption by many Christians and Moslems, that a literal, or metaphoric, or symbolic Jesus, could be both colored and real. Firth argues that the highest emotional loading is shared "with a real participation in the thing symbolized". [411]… (mais)