INTERVIEW OF ROSEMARY FIRTH


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Interview of Rosemary Firth by Alan Macfarlane

Rosemary describes how she had to learn some anthropology in order to mix with her husband Raymond's friends, and how the wives of fieldworkers have to join their husbands in their work.

Filmed in Robinson College in 1983 at the A.S.A. decennial conference by Michael Madha and others.

The original is about 15 minutes long

[Raymond and Rosemary Firth interviewed by Anthony Forge, filmed by Timothy Asch, in 1978]