ABSTRACT As a preliminary biographical exploration, this article provides an introductory study into Raymond Firth's early research, as it initially related to Māoridom. Using archival and creative collaborative techniques to look at anthropology's contemporary past, it contends that Firth is amongst the earliest founders of the ethnographic approach known as ‘the anthropology of/at home’. A significant interest in the biographic description of anthropologists is currently taking place. As a newly developing self-conscious genre, the intellectual biography is becoming central to the way in which the discipline writes its own history. This paper not only provides an introduction into Firth's Māori work (as found in his MA and PhD research), but also demonstrates the use of experimental methods in creating an ‘archaeology of us’. In seeing the lesser known and largely disregarded elements of Firth's personal history as a poorly investigated type of biographical data, I suggest that such interdisciplinary approaches are essential in conducting biographical research. Despite two Festschrifts honouring Firth's contributions to the discipline, there is as yet no lengthy biography of this acclaimed economic anthropologist. He was ‘born and bred’ in Aotearoa/NZ, but migrated to the UK in 1924 to pursue his doctorate. By tracing the early career path and initial written output of one of the longest lived and most influential ethnographers/ethnologists in the discipline's legacy, this paper contributes to expanding the biographical genre – both regarding antipodean academic history, as well as in dealing with international migration, the movement of ideas and social anthropology's diasporic intellectual landscapes.

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法力和毛利文化：雷蒙德·费思（Raymond Firth）提科比亚前的岁月

摘要作为传记的初步探索，本文对雷蒙德·费思（Raymond Firth）的早期研究进行了介绍性研究，因为该研究最初与毛利多姆有关。它认为，通过使用档案和创新的协作技术来考察人类学的当代历史，费斯是最早的民族志研究方法创始人之一，被称为“家庭人类学”。目前正在引起对人类学家的传记描述的极大兴趣。作为一种新兴的自我意识流派，知识分子传记正成为该学科撰写其自身历史的方式的核心。本文不仅介绍了Firth的毛利人的工作（从其MA和PhD研究中发现），还展示了实验方法在创建“我们的考古学”中的应用。在将Firth的个人历史中鲜为人知且被忽视的元素视为传记数据研究较少的情况下，我建议这种跨学科方法对于进行传记研究至关重要。尽管有两部Festschrifts纪念Firth对这一学科的贡献，但至今还没有关于这位著名的经济人类学家的传记。他在新西兰的奥特阿罗阿（Aotearoa / NZ）出生并长大，但在1924年移民到英国攻读博士学位。通过追踪该学科遗产中寿命最长，影响力最大的民族志学家/民族学家之一的早期职业道路和初始书面输出，本文有助于拓展传记类型–既涉及对立的学术历史，也涉及国际移民，