Marett Lecture

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
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

References

Dates from the Oxford University Gazette

Notes

1. ^ Oxford University Gazette; No. 2544, 30 April 1947 (p. 689)
2. ^ delayed from original date of Feb 4 due to illness
3. ^ 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).