Abstract
ries, his precise commentary, and considered reflections on his experiences and colleagues leave anthropology with so full a record of his life, times, and accomplishments (see Husmann et al. 1991; Parkin 1988) that a standard obituary is, I think, superfluous-he told it better. I first met Raymond Firth in 1969 at a meeting of the fledgling Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO). This was the year after his retirement from the London School of Economics, when he had begun a series of visiting professorships that were to take him to the Universities of Hawaii, Chicago, British Columbia, and California (Davis and Berkeley), and to Cornell University and the City University of New York. I visited him in Vancouver later that year; we mostly discussed Polynesian kin terminologies, which we were both writing about at the time. His visit to the University of Auckland in 1978 was different from those he made earlier in North America. He
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