Adrian Mayer describes his early background in Bengal after the Second World War and how he began to be interested in social anthropology. He learnt Hindi and then started to attend seminars in anthropology with Raymond Firth and then decided to do the diploma in anthropology at the L.S.E.

Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane in Cambridge in 1983. Part of a 20 minute interview.

[His contribution at the Celebration of the Life and Work of Raymond Firth, 18th October 2002]