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.[1]
| 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 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 |
| 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 [2] | 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 [3] |
| 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? |
| 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 |
| 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 L. 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 Sophia 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
Notes
- ^ Oxford University Gazette No. 2544, 30 April 1947 (p. 689)
- ^ delayed from original date of Feb 4 due to illness
- ^ The lecture was originally to be delivered on 14 May 1964 as "The politics of divination in Africa", but Gluckman was forced to postpone due to an attack of malaria. The Oxford University Gazette (No. 3192) announced that the lecture was to be delayed until Michaelmas term, and it was ultimately delivered in Hilary term of 1965, when Gluckman delivered the lectures for both 1964 and 1965. He discusses these events in his introduction to his edited collection The allocation of responsibility (1972).