Marett Lecture
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The Robert Ranulph Marett Memorial Lectureship at Exeter College, Oxford
is a memorial lecture established in memory of the late R. R. Marett
, D.Litt., D.Sc., F.B.A., Rector of the College 1928-43, by subscribers to a Memorial Fund.
Exeter College, Oxford
Exeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth oldest college of the University. The main entrance is on the east side of Turl Street...
is a memorial lecture established in memory of the late R. R. Marett
Robert Ranulph Marett
Robert Ranulph Marett was a British ethnologist from Jersey.Exponent of the British evolutionary school, he dealt with religious ethnology. In this field he modified the evolutionary scale of religion fixed by E. B. Tylor, which placed animism in the first place...
, D.Litt., D.Sc., F.B.A., Rector of the College 1928-43, by subscribers to a Memorial Fund.
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
| May 17, 1947 | Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod | Early man and the threshold of religion |
| June 5, 1948 | Herbert Jennings Rose | Mana in Greece and Rome |
| May 7, 1949 | Charlie Dunbar Broad Charlie Dunbar Broad C. D. Broad was an English epistemologist, historian of philosophy, philosopher of science, moral philosopher, and writer on the philosophical aspects of psychical research... |
Egoism as a theory of human motives |
| June 3, 1950 | Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard | Social anthropology: Past and present |
| June 2, 1951 | (George) Gilbert Aimé Murray | Till Nous came and put things in order |
| June 7, 1952 | Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler | Archaeology and the transmission of ideas |
| June 6, 1953 | Raymond William Firth | The study of values by social anthropologists |
| May 6, 1954 | Leon Roth Léon Roth Léon Roth is a Luxembourgian sprint canoer who competed in the early 1950s. At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he finished 17th in the K-1 10000 m event. He was eliminated in the heats of the K-2 1000 m event.-References:*... |
A contemporary moralist: Albert Camus |
| May 7, 1955 | Robert Hugh Kirk Marett | Indian civilizations of Mexico and Peru |
| May 5, 1956 | Kathleen Mary Kenyon | Jericho and its setting in Near Eastern history |
| June 6, 1957 | Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders | The social sciences and the humanities |
| May 15, 1958 | Edwin Oliver James | The threshold of religion |
| March 11, 1959 | John Bryan Ward-Perkins John Bryan Ward-Perkins John Bryan Ward-Perkins CMG, CBE, FBA was a British Classical architectural historian and archaeologist, and director of the British School at Rome.-Background:... |
A Parthian view of the Eastern frontier of the Roman Empire: the recent excavations at Hatra |
| June 7, 1960 | Humayun Kabir Humayun Kabir Humayun Zahiruddin Amir-i Kabir or Humayun Kabir was an Indian educationist, politician, writer and philosopher.-Ancestry and early life:... |
Britain and India |
| February 1, 1961 | Herbert Ian Priestly Hogbin | Morality without religion |
| February 8, 1962 | Courtney Arthur Ralegh Radford | Evidences of Norse settlement in Britain |
| May 2, 1963 | Sir Eric Ashby | An anatomy of academic life |
| February 18, 1965 | (Herman) Max Gluckman | Moral crises: Magical and secular solutions |
| February 25, 1965 | (Herman) Max Gluckman | Moral crises: Magical and secular solutions |
| February 24, 1966 | Stuart Ernest Piggott | The origins of the village settlement in prehistoric Europe |
| May 18, 1967 | William Calvert Kneale | The responsibility of criminals |
| May 9, 1968 | Sir Alister Clavering Hardy | Marett, anthropology and religion |
| May 8, 1969 | Jacqueline Worms de Romilly | Historical necessity in the fifth century, B.C. |
| May 13, 1971 | Leslie Alcock Leslie Alcock Leslie Alcock was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, and one of the leading archaeologists of Early Mediaeval Britain. His major excavations included Dinas Powys hill fort in Wales, Cadbury Castle, South Cadbury in Somerset and a series of major hillforts in Scotland.-Early... |
South Cadbury excavations - Camelot, 1966–70 |
| November 4, 1971 | (John Percy Vyvian) Dacre Balsdon John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon was an English ancient historian.After attending Exeter School, he studied at Exeter College in Oxford, where he taught Ancient History from 1927 to 1969. Since 1967, he was a member of the British Academy. His research was primarily in Roman History... |
Romulus and Remus; the birth of a legend |
| May 18, 1972 | Constantine Athanasius Trypanis | Greek folk songs |
| November 8, 1973 | Willard Van Orman Quine Willard Van Orman Quine Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition... |
Substitutional quantification |
| November 12, 1974 | Meyer Fortes Meyer Fortes Meyer Fortes was a South African-born anthropologist, best known for his work among the Tallensi and Ashanti in Ghana.Originally trained in psychology, Fortes employed the notion of the "person" into his structural-functional analyses of kinship, the family, and ancestor worship setting a standard... |
West African seasonal festivals and the ancestors |
| November 20, 1975 | Martin Biddle Martin Biddle Martin Biddle is a British archaeologist. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. His work was important in the development of medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Great Britain.-Excavations:* Nonsuch Palace 1959-1960* Winchester 1961-1971... |
Patterns of authority? Problems in the emergence of Anglo-Saxon England |
| November 18, 1976 | David Walter Hamlyn | The phenomena of love and hate |
| November 3, 1977 | Sir Edmund Ronald Leach | The threshold of religion |
| November 14, 1978 | Arthur Ernest Mourant | John Ranulph de la Haule Marett, pioneer biological anthropologist |
| November 8, 1979 | Charles Thomas Charles Thomas -Military:*Charles L. Thomas , United States Army soldier awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism*Charles L. Thomas , United States Army officer awarded the Distinguished Service Cross... |
Hermits on islands or priests in a landscape? Early Christianity in the Isles of Scilly |
| November 25, 1980 | Richard G. Swinburne | Are mental events identical with brain events? |
| May 12, 1982 | Malcolm Donald McLeod | African art and time |
| May 17, 1983 | Dewi Zephaniah Phillips | Primitive reactions and the reactions of primitives |
| 1985 | Ernest André Gellner | Anthropology between positivism and romanticism |
| 1986 | Edward Thomas Hall Edward Thomas Hall Edward Thomas Hall CBE, Hon. FBA, FSA, D.Phil was a British scientist.-Life:Born in London, Hall was also a hot-air-balloon pilot and owner of Cameron O-84 Flaming Pearl G-AYAJ 1970-1990.... |
Archaeometry: attempting co-operation between the Arts and Sciences |
| 1987 | Bernard Williams Bernard Williams Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams was an English moral philosopher, described by The Times as the most brilliant and most important British moral philosopher of his time. His publications include Problems of the Self , Moral Luck , Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy , and Truth and Truthfulness... |
Humans, animals and machines |
| 1988 | David Francis Pocock | Persons, texts and morality |
| May 8, 1989 | Julian Alfred Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers | From the love of food to the love of God |
| 1990 | Jean Sybil La Fontaine | Power, authority and symbols in domestic life |
| April 26, 1991 | Thomas R. Trautmann | The revolution in ethnological time |
| 1992 | Caroline Humphrey Caroline Humphrey Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey, Lady Rees of Ludlow DBE, FBA is a British anthropologist. Together with Urgunge Onon she founded the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit in 1986... |
Rethinking moral authority in post-socialist Mongolia |
| 1993 | John David Yeadon Peel | For who hath despised the day of small things? Missionary narratives and historical anthropology |
| April 29, 1994 | Fredrik Barth Fredrik Barth Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth is a Norwegian social anthropologist who has published several ethnographic books with a clear formalistic view... |
Ethnicity and the concept of culture |
| April 28, 1995 | Alan Donald James Macfarlane | Illth and wealth |
| April 26, 1996 | Signe L. Howell | "May blessings come, may mischiefs go!" Living kinds as agents of transition and transformation among the Lio |
| April 25, 1997 | Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd | The uses and abuses of classification: Ancient Greek and Chinese reflections |
| May 1, 1998 | Ruth Sophia Padel | How myth uses us: Greek "Guyville" and women's rock music |
| April 30, 1999 | Martin David Goodman | Explaining religious change |
| May 5, 2000 | Piers Vitebsky Piers Vitebsky Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist and is the Head of Social Science at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, England.Since the 1980s, Vitebsky has carried out fieldwork with the Evens of Siberia, and other peoples of India and Sri Lanka.Vitebsky won the Kiriyama Prize.He... |
Forgetting the ancestors: Living without the dead |
| April 27, 2001 | James Patrick Mallory | The cultural worlds of the Indo-Europeans |
| April 26, 2002 | Roger Just | Of fishers and boats, and sacrificial goats: Interpreting the commonplace |
| May 2, 2003 | Jonathan Webber | Making Sense of the Past: Reflections on Jewish Historical Consciousness |
| April 30, 2004 | John Bennet | Archaeologies of Homer |
| September 16, 2005 | Harvey Whitehouse Harvey Whitehouse Harvey Whitehouse is an anthropologist and a leading figure in the cognitive science of religion. Professor Whitehouse holds a Statutory Chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and is a Professorial Fellow of Magdalen College... |
The evolution and history of religion |
| May 12, 2006 | Christina Toren | How do we know what is true? The case of mana in Fiji |
| April 27, 2007 | Jonathan Parry | Hegemony and resistance: Trade union politics in central India |
| April 25, 2008 | Sherry Beth Ortner | Indie producers: Class and the production of value in the American independent film scene |
| May 1, 2009 | Scott Atran Scott Atran Scott Atran is an American and French anthropologist.-Education and early career:Atran was born in New York City in 1952 and he received his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. While a student at Columbia, he became assistant to anthropologist Margaret Mead at the American Museum of... |
Talking to the Enemy: The Dreams, Delusions and Science of Sacred Causes and Conflicts |