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Line 1: {{Short description\|British social anthropologist}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=August 2017}} {{Use British English\|date=August 2017}} {{No footnotes\|date=July 2021}} '''Rosemary, Lady Firth''' (1912 – 9 July 2001) was a British [[social anthropologist]], and wife of [[Raymond Firth\|Sir Raymond Firth]]. She specialised in the field of [[domestic economy]]. ==Life== Rosemary Firth (née Upcott) was born in 1912. Her father was a distinguished official in the [[HM Treasury\|Treasury]]. She took a Political Economy degree (MA) in [[Edinburgh]] in 1935, and then moved to [[London]]. She married Raymond Firth in 1936, and accompanied him to [[British Malaya\|Malaya]] to undertake fieldwork infrom 1939- to 1940. She focussed on the domestic economy of the female villagers, resulting in the publication of ''Housekeeping among Malay Peasants'' in 1943. She worked as a lecturer in health education at the University of London [[Institute of Education]] for many years, whilst continuing her anthropological research interests. Her son Hugh was born in 1946. When her husband was knighted in 1973, Rosemary Firth took the title Lady Firth. She died in 2001. Following her death, Sir Raymond established The Rosemary and Raymond Firth Award in the Department of Anthropology at the [[London School of Economics]]. This award has the specific aim of promoting Rosemary’s interest in 'the anthropology of household management and the organisation of domestic affairs'. ==Selected bibliography== Line 22 ⟶ 24: ==External links== [https://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1116602 Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 8 July 1983 (poor quality video)] [http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/DO/filmshow/rosemary_firth_fast.htm 20 minute video of an interview with Rosemary Firth] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Firth, Rosemary}} [[Category:British women anthropologists]] [[Category:Social anthropologists]] [[Category:1912 births]]