Celebration of the Life and Work of Sir Raymond Firth, held at the London School of Economics on 18th October 2002. Short addresses by Professor Anthony Giddens, Director of the London School of Economics; Dr Charles Stafford, Convenor of the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics; a message from Tikopia read by the Lord Grabenor, QC, Chairman of the L.S.E. Council; Professor Adrian Mayer, Emeritus Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies; Professor Janet Carsten, Head of Social Anthropology, Edinburgh University; Professor John Davis, Warden of AllSouls College, Oxford; message from Professor Fei Hsiao T'ung in China read by Professor Stephen Feuchtwang, London School of Economics; Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge; Professor Jean la Fontaine, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics; message from Professor Claude Levi-Strauss, read by Professor Joanathan Parry of the London School of Economics; Professor Maurice Bloch, Department of Anthropology, L.S.E.