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Raymond Firth  

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  • Raymond (later Sir Raymond) Firth was an important contributor to the British school of social anthropology in the early 20th century. His exemplary fieldwork in Polynesia, as well as later work in Malaya and London, provides useful ethnographic records that are supplemented by his more theoretical works. [Source: Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia; Firth, Raymond]

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