About the Author

Raymond Firth (1901-2002) was professor at the London School of Economics. His best-known research was on people of the Southeastern most part of Asia as well as Oceania. He was an honorary fellow at the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. B.S. Yamey is professor emeritus in the department of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also an honorary fellow at the university.

Reviews

-This book is based on papers delivered at a symposium on economics and anthropology held under the auspices of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in 1960.... The various chapters are well edited, and the book will clearly be useful to social anthropologists.- --Polly Hill, The Economic Journal -The essays are well written and edited. The book provides some good source material for those concerned with economic anthropology and community development.- --George Dalton, American Anthropologist -Perhaps it is a measure of our growing awareness of the need for interdisciplinary understanding that this book, written primarily by anthropologists, should be reviewed by an economist for a journal of sociology. It is appropriate that it should be so reviewed, since it constitutes a plea to the economist that he pay more attention to the contribution which anthropologists can make to the understanding of economic growth.- --Donald C. Mead, American Journal of Sociology -[O]ne finds in this book a wealth of specific insights and partial analysis of great value.- --Vaclav Holesovsky, The American Economic Review

"This book is based on papers delivered at a symposium on economics and anthropology held under the auspices of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in 1960.... The various chapters are well edited, and the book will clearly be useful to social anthropologists." --Polly Hill, The Economic Journal "The essays are well written and edited. The book provides some good source material for those concerned with economic anthropology and community development." --George Dalton, American Anthropologist "Perhaps it is a measure of our growing awareness of the need for interdisciplinary understanding that this book, written primarily by anthropologists, should be reviewed by an economist for a journal of sociology. It is appropriate that it should be so reviewed, since it constitutes a plea to the economist that he pay more attention to the contribution which anthropologists can make to the understanding of economic growth." --Donald C. Mead, American Journal of Sociology "[O]ne finds in this book a wealth of specific insights and partial analysis of great value." --Vaclav Holesovsky, The American Economic Review

"This book is based on papers delivered at a symposium on economics and anthropology held under the auspices of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in 1960.... The various chapters are well edited, and the book will clearly be useful to social anthropologists." --Polly Hill, The Economic Journal "The essays are well written and edited. The book provides some good source material for those concerned with economic anthropology and community development." --George Dalton, American Anthropologist "Perhaps it is a measure of our growing awareness of the need for interdisciplinary understanding that this book, written primarily by anthropologists, should be reviewed by an economist for a journal of sociology. It is appropriate that it should be so reviewed, since it constitutes a plea to the economist that he pay more attention to the contribution which anthropologists can make to the understanding of economic growth." --Donald C. Mead, American Journal of Sociology "[O]ne finds in this book a wealth of specific insights and partial analysis of great value." --Vaclav Holesovsky, The American Economic Review