Fish Trading on Shore
in Raymond William Firth Papers, of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Malaya: Other Papers, Fishing: Raw Materials) (London, England) (1939) , 18 page(s)
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- Undated draft of a typewritten essay by Raymond Firth titled "Fish Trading on Shore." Firth examines the role of the peraih, a middleman for the larger fishing enterprises in Malaya. These sellers buy fish directly from fishing boats and sell them to individual consumers on the beach. Firth describes the types of sellers, the process of price bidding, and the reasons for choosing this line of work. He then provides detailed examples, dating from 1939 through 1940, of individual sellers and their transactions. While the text is in English, indigenous terms are used throughout.
- Field of Interest
- Anthropology
- Content Type
- Research notes
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Sir Raymond Firth, 1901-2002
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 18
- Page Range
- 1-18
- Subject
- Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Retail occupations, Fisheries, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Trengganu, Tringganu, Dāru l-Īmān, Pahang, Terengganu, Kelantan State, Malay
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Trengganu, Tringganu, Dāru l-Īmān