CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF RAYMOND FIRTH


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Held at the London School of Economics on 18th October 2002.

The following speakers were filmed by Xiaoxiao Yan and Alan Macfarlane and their contributions can be seen as Quicktime MP4. For broadband users download the films to your computer from DSpace or click the name of the contributor to "fast start" the film.

 

Professor Anthony Giddens, Director of the London School of Economics

Dr Charles Stafford, Convenor of the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, followed by The Lord Grabiner, Q.C., Chairman of the London School of Economics Council, who reads 'A message from Tikopia'

Professor Adrian Mayer, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies

Professor Janet Carsten, Head of Social Anthropology, Edinburgh University

Professor John Davis, Warden, All Souls College, Oxford

Professor Stephan Feuchtwang, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, reads message from Fei Hsiao-T'ung

Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, Mistress, Girton College, Cambridge

Professor Jean La Fontaine, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics

Professor Jonathan Parry, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, reads a message from Claude Levi-Strauss

Professor Maurice Bloch, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics