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Five employees of the US government, stationed in europe have vanished without a trace. Two from West Berlin, one from Paris, two from Vienna. Vienna seems to be the point of departure for the missing men. The trail ends there.Copyright 1965, presumed 1st edition, paperback, no dust jacket issued. 141 pages.Condition: Good - structurally intact, some yellowing to pages, minimal soil and/or wear, shows some minor edge and corner wear on cover, owner insciption inside, library discard with stamp on title page, pocket remnant. Fully readable, Magnum Books, 1965, 2.5, xxi+494 pages with frontispiece, 24 plates, 2 maps, 4 plans, 6 tables, 8 genealogies, appendix and index. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Fourth printing.Raymond Firth was born in Tamaki, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School, and then at Auckland University College, where he graduated in economics in 1921. He took his MA there in 1922, and a diploma in social science in 1923. In 1924 he began his doctoral research at the London School of Economics. Originally intending to complete a thesis in economics, a chance meeting with the eminent social anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski led to him to alter his field of study to 'blending economic and anthropological theory with Pacific ethnography'. It was possibly during this period in England that he worked as research assistant to Sir James G Frazer, author of The Golden Bough. Firth's doctoral thesis was published in 1929 as Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Maori. After receiving his PhD in 1927 Firth returned to the southern hemisphere to take up a position at the University of Sydney, although he did not start teaching immediately as a research opportunity presented itself. In 1928 he first visited Tikopia, the southernmost of the Solomon Islands, to study the untouched Polynesian society there, resistant to outside influences and still with its religion and undeveloped economy. This was the beginning of a long relationship with the 1200 people of the remote four mile long island, and resulted in ten books and numerous articles written over many years. The first of these, We the Tikopia: A Sociological Study of Kinship in Primitive Polynesia was published in 1936 and seventy years on is still used as a basis for many university courses about Oceania. In 1930 he started teaching at the University of Sydney. On the departure for Chicago of Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Firth succeeded him as acting Professor. He also took over from Radcliffe-Brown as acting editor of the journal Oceania, and as acting director of the Anthropology Research Committee of the Australian National Research Committee. After 18 months he returned to the London School of Economics in 1933 to take up a lectureship, and was appointed Reader in 1935. Together with his wife Rosemary Firth, also to become a distinguished anthropologist, he undertook fieldwork in Kelantan and Terengganu in Malaya in 1939-1940. During the Second World War Firth worked for British naval intelligence. During this period Firth was based in Cambridge, where the LSE had its wartime home. Firth succeeded Malinowski as Professor of Social Anthropology at LSE in 1944, and he remained at the School for the next 24 years. He returned to Tikopia on research visits several times, although as travel and fieldwork requirements became more burdensome he focused on family and kinship relationships in working- and middle-class London. Firth left LSE in 1968, when he took up a year's appointment as Professor of Pacific Anthropology at the University of Hawaii. There followed visiting professorships at British Columbia (1969), Cornell (1970), Chicago (1970-1), the Graduate School of the City University of New York (1971) and UC Davis (1974).Condition: Lightly soiled; corners bumped and creased; edge wear; hinges rubbed; scrape on front wrapper; remainder mark at head end papers else about very good., Beacon Press, 1968, 3, New Yorik, New York: Vintage Departures, 1997. Good Paperback. Good/Good., Vintage Departures, 1997, 2.5

ISBN: 9780679776109

In Tropical Classical the author of "Video Nights in Katmandu and "The Lady and the Monk visits a holy city in Ethiopia, where hooded worshippers practice a Christianity that has remained unchanged since the Middle Ages. He follows the bewilderingly complex route of Bombay's "dabbawallahs, who each day ferry 100,000 different lunches to 100,000 different workers. Iyer chats with the Dalai Lama and assesses the books of Salman Rushdie and Cormac McCarthy. And he brings his perceptive eye and unflappable wit to bear on the postmodern vogues for literary puffery, sexual gamesmanship, and frequent-flier miles. Glittering with aphorisms, overflowing with insight, and often hilarious, Tropical Classical represents some of Iyer's finest work. Media > Book, [PU: Random House; Alfred A. Knopf]

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