Diary of Fieldwork I
in Raymond William Firth Papers, of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Rosemary Firth's Malaya 1939-1940 Field Notebooks and Diaries, Diary of Fieldwork I) (London, England) (1939) , 195 page(s)
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- Bound handwritten diary, with note on cover reading "Rosemary Firth. I. Private and Confidential. Diary of fieldwork. Aug.-Dec. 1939 Malay 1939-." (Note that while diary contains entries through December, the final pages are dated June and July.) Entries discuss the journey to Singapore and then Malaya as well as daily life. Experiences of shopping, meals, and local festivals are noted, as well as mentions of her husband, Raymond Firth. Included is a clipping from an unnamed New Zealand newspaper of 1940, describing Rosemary Firth's talk to the Victoria League of Auckland. It is omitted here due to copyright issues.
- Field of Interest
- Anthropology
- Content Type
- Diary/Memoir/Autobiography
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Rosemary Firth, 1912-2001
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 195
- Page Range
- 1-195
- Subject
- Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Field work for anthropology, Travel, Domestic life, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Singapur, Cingapura, Sir Raymond Firth, 1901-2002, Singapore, Malay, Singaporeans
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Singapur, Cingapura
