{"product_id":"love-loyalty-and-deceit-rosemary-firth-a-life-in-the-shadow-of-two-eminent-men-9781800739789","title":"Love, Loyalty and Deceit: Rosemary Firth, a Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eHow 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tTold 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tFrom the Prologue:\u003cbr\u003e \tRosemary 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tForeword\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tImportant People\u003cbr\u003e \tChronology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eEdmund, 1928-1931\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e I Know He Will Come Back, 1931-1932\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eA Proposal, 1932-1934\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Raymond, 1934-1935\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eBy the Trickery of Cunning Fate, 1936-1938\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Have You Been Bombed? 1938-1940\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Under Attack, 1940\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Opened by Censor, 1941-1942\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e One Suit and Two Blouses, 1942-1943\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eClogs, Cotton, Commerce and Cream, 1943\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003eTwenty Hens, Three Cats and a Fish, 1944-1949\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Cost of Change, 1951-1952\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e Goblins, 1952-1953\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/strong\u003e Dancing Days and Orchid Nights, 1953-1961\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15. \u003c\/strong\u003eBursting with Ideas, 1959-1964\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 16. \u003c\/strong\u003eScorched Earth, 1965-1966\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 17. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Wheel Keeps Turning, 1967-1969\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 18. \u003c\/strong\u003eTogether Again, 1969\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 19.\u003c\/strong\u003e Only by Change Can Things Not Die, 1970-1978\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 20. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Dark Side of the Moon, 1978-1979\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 21.\u003c\/strong\u003e Knowing Too Much and Too Little, 1979\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 22.\u003c\/strong\u003e Pity Bolts Other Doors, 1979-1981\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 23.\u003c\/strong\u003e Almost Like Brothers, 1984-1986\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 24.\u003c\/strong\u003e Who was that Woman? 1986-1997\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042755805527,"sku":"9781800739789","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800739789.jpg?v=1750955486","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/love-loyalty-and-deceit-rosemary-firth-a-life-in-the-shadow-of-two-eminent-men-9781800739789","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}