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Love, Loyalty and Deceit

Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men

Hugh Firth and Loulou Brown

320 pages, 26 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80073-976-5 $145.00/£107.00 / Hb / Published (September 2023)

ISBN  978-1-80073-978-9 $24.95/£19.95 / Pb / Published (September 2023)

eISBN 978-1-80539-360-3 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800739765


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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.

The book explores their early influences, their insecurities, their flaws, struggles and achievements. It is a story of passion and commitment, but also of deceit and betrayal, including the inexplicable disappearance, death and alleged murder of a very close friend. It also narrates Rosemary's struggles for emotional and intellectual independence in the face of societal expectations of women and her own guilt, loss and self-doubt.

From the Prologue:
Rosemary loved many people in many different ways, but she loved two men in particular throughout most of her life. One was her husband, Raymond Firth, regarded by some as among the founding fathers of social anthropology. Yet she also retained a passionate devotion to her first love, Edmund Leach, who would subsequently become the public intellectual face of social anthropology in the later 1960s. Both separately and together they were part of the process of defining the nature of this still growing discipline in the first part of the mid-twentieth century.

Hugh Firth, son of Rosemary and Raymond Firth, was a consultant clinical psychologist, now retired. He has published on issues in clinical and organisational psychology, and disability, and more recently on homicide in early medieval Iceland. He continues to teach on organisational relationships, threat, conflict and power.

Loulou Brown, daughter of Edmund and Celia Leach, obtained a diploma in sociology, a degree in social sciences, a master's in women's studies and a master's in English literature. She works as a freelance editor and proofreader, specialising in editing fiction and academic texts in the humanities and social sciences.

Subject: Anthropology (General)History: 20th Century to Present
Area: Europe


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