Love, Loyalty and Deceit: Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men
Hugh Firth, "Love, Loyalty and Deceit: Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men"
English | ISBN: 1800739788 | 2023 | 320 pages | PDF | 35 MB
English | ISBN: 1800739788 | 2023 | 320 pages | PDF | 35 MB
How much do we really know about our parents’ lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle of some of the most acclaimed anthropologists of the 20th century.
Told by Rosemary and Raymond Firth's son, and the daughter of Celia and Edmund Leach, the man Rosemary loved all her life, this part love-story, part biography, part social history is the tale of a highly influential circle of social anthropologists in Britain from the 1930s, through the Second World War, to the end of the century.
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