ANTHROPOLOGIST

Raymond Firth

1901 - 2002

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Sir Raymond William Firth (25 March 1901 – 22 February 2002) was an ethnologist from New Zealand. As a result of Firth's ethnographic work, actual behaviour of societies (social organization) is separated from the idealized rules of behaviour within the particular society (social structure). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Firth has received more than 117,460 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Raymond Firth is the 47th most popular anthropologist (up from 61st in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from New Zealand (up from 46th in 2019) and the most popular New Zealander Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Raymond Firth ranks 47 out of 93. Before her are Aleš Hrdlička, Louis Dumont, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Lubor Niederle, John Lloyd Stephens, and Birutė Galdikas. After her are Bill Mollison, Gilberto Freyre, Alfred Sauvy, Helen Fisher, Bengt Danielsson, and Andrey Korotayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Raymond Firth ranks 165. Before her are Dmitry Lelyushenko, Henri Tomasi, Xu Xiangqian, Nina Bari, Ugo Frigerio, and André Parrot. After her are Willy Fritsch, Max Lorenz, Ernest Nagel, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Zeppo Marx, and Louis Boyer. Among people deceased in 2002, Raymond Firth ranks 156. Before her are Julio Pérez, Marion Dönhoff, Lolita Torres, Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin, Layne Staley, and Ray Brown. After her are Robert Urich, John Thaw, Xavier Montsalvatge, Vlado Perlemuter, Heinz von Foerster, and Manuel Álvarez Bravo.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Raymond Firth ranks 31 out of 303. Before her are Temuera Morrison (1960), Alan Dale (1947), Wynton Rufer (1962), Jonah Lomu (1975), Cindy Kiro (1958), and Andrew Niccol (1964). After her are Richard Curtis (1956), Peter Snell (1938), Manu Bennett (1969), Clive Revill (1930), Taika Waititi (1975), and Janet Frame (1924).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In New Zealand

Among anthropologists born in New Zealand, Raymond Firth ranks 1. 

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