Raymond Firth

Sir Raymond Firth CNZM FRAI FBA
Firth c. 1965
Born	(1901-03-25)25 March 1901 Auckland, New Zealand
Died	22 February 2002(2002-02-22) (aged 100) London, England
Alma mater	Auckland University College (BA, MA, Dipl) London School of Economics (PhD)
Spouse	Rosemary Upcott ​ ​ (m. 1936; died 2001)​
Scientific career
Fields	Ethnology
Thesis	Economic organisation of Polynesian societies: wealth and work of the Maori (1927)
Academic advisors	Bronisław Malinowski
Doctoral students	Edmund Leach Kenneth Little Joan Metge

Sir Raymond William Firth CNZM FRAI FBA (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). He was a long serving professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, and is considered to have singlehandedly created a form of British economic anthropology.^[1]