Marett Lecture

The Robert Ranulph Marett Memorial Lectureship at Exeter College, Oxford

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.

Date	Lecturer	Title
May 17, 1947	Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod	Early man and the threshold of religion
Jun 5, 1948	Herbert Jennings Rose	Mana in Greece and Rome
May 7, 1949	Charlie Dunbar Broad	Egoism as a theory of human motives
Jun 3, 1950	Edward Evans Evans-Pritchard	Social anthropology: past and present
Jun 2, 1951	(George) Gilbert Aimé Murray	Till Nous came and put things in order
Jun 7, 1952	Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler	Archaeology and the transmission of ideas
Jun 6, 1953	Raymond 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
Jun 6, 1957	Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders	The social sciences and the humanities
May 15, 1958	Edwin Oliver James	The threshold of religion
Mar 11, 1959	John Bryan Ward-Perkins	A Parthian view of the Eastern frontier of the Roman Empire: the recent excavations at Hatra
Jun 7, 1960	Humayun Kabir	Britain and India
Feb 1, 1961	Herbert Ian Priestly Hogbin	Morality without religion
Feb 8, 1962	Courtney Arthur Ralegh Radford	Evidences of Norse settlement in Britain
May 2, 1963	Sir Eric Ashby	An anatomy of academic life
Feb 18, 1965	(Herman) Max Gluckman	Moral crises: Magical and secular solutions
Feb 25, 1965	(Herman) Max Gluckman	Moral crises: Magical and secular solutions
Feb 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
Nov 4, 1971	(John Percy Vyvian) Dacre Balsdon	Romulus and Remus; the birth of a legend
May 18, 1972	Constantine Athanasius Trypanis	Greek folk songs
Nov 8, 1973	Willard Van Orman Quine	Substitutional quantification
Nov 12, 1974	Meyer Fortes	West African seasonal festivals and the ancestors
Nov 20, 1975	Martin Biddle	Patterns of authority? Problems in the emergence of Anglo-Saxon England
Nov 18, 1976	David Walter Hamlyn	The phenomena of love and hate
Nov 3, 1977	Sir Edmund Ronald Leach	The Threshold of Religion
Nov 14, 1978	Arthur Ernest Mourant	John Ranulph de la Haule Marett, pioneer biological anthropologist
Nov 8, 1979	Charles Thomas	Hermits on islands or priests in a landscape? Early Christianity in the Isles of Scilly
Nov 25, 1980	Richard G. Swinburne	Are mental events identical with brain events?
1981
1982
May 17, 1983	Dewi Zephaniah Phillips	Primitive reactions and the reactions of primitives
1984
1985	Ernest Andre 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
Apr 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
Apr 29, 1994	Fredrik Barth	Ethnicity and the concept of culture
Apr 28, 1995	Alan Donald James Macfarlane	Illth and wealth
Apr 26, 1996	Signe Howell	May blessings come, may mischiefs go!: Living kinds as agents of transition and transformation among the Lio
Apr 25, 1997	Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd	The uses and abuses of classification: Ancient Greek and Chinese reflections
May 1, 1998	Ruth Padel	How myth uses us: Greek "Guyville" and women's rock music
Apr 30, 1999	Martin D. Goodman	Explaining religious change
May 5, 2000	Piers Vitebsky	Forgetting the ancestors: Living without the dead
Apr 27, 2001	James Patrick Mallory	The cultural worlds of the Indo-Europeans
Apr 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
Apr 30, 2004	John Bennett	Archaeologies of Homer
Sep 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
Apr 27, 2007	Jonathan Parry	Hegemony and resistance: Trade union politics in central India

References

Dates from the Oxford University Gazette