Firth on Firth

Rolf Husman
Peter Loizos
Werner Sperschneider
1993
49 minutes

 

In a series of interviews in his London home and the London School of Economics, Sir Raymond Firth talks about his life and some of his personal views. The film focuses thus on his Maori studies, Social Anthropology under Malinowski at the LSE, Firth's fieldwork in Tikopia and, in an interview together with his wife, Lady Rosemary, their common fieldwork in Malaya. A number of unique black-and-white photographs taken by Firth himself also are used as illustrations.

 

Producer / Production company: 
IWF
Other keywords: 
anthropology
History of Anthropology