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.[1]
Date | Lecturer | Title |
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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 | 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 | 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 [2] | John Bryan Ward-Perkins | A Parthian view of the Eastern frontier of the Roman Empire: the recent excavations at Hatra |
June 7, 1960 | Humayun Kabir | 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 [3] |
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 | South Cadbury excavations - Camelot, 1966–70 |
November 4, 1971 | (John Percy Vyvian) Dacre Balsdon | Romulus and Remus; the birth of a legend |
May 18, 1972 | Constantine Athanasius Trypanis | Greek folk songs |
November 8, 1973 | Willard Van Orman Quine | Substitutional quantification |
November 12, 1974 | Meyer Fortes | West African seasonal festivals and the ancestors |
November 20, 1975 | Martin Biddle | 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 | 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 | Archaeometry: attempting co-operation between the Arts and Sciences |
1987 | Bernard Williams | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Talking to the Enemy: The Dreams, Delusions and Science of Sacred Causes and Conflicts |
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