# Marett Lecture

The Robert Ranulph Marett Memorial Lectureship at Exeter College, Oxford is a memorial lecture established in memory of R. R. Marett, D.Litt., D.Sc., F.B.A., Rector of the College 1928-43, by subscribers to a Memorial Fund.

## List of Marett Lectures

| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 17 May 1947 | Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod | Early man and the threshold of religion |
| 5 June 1948 | Herbert Jennings Rose | Mana in Greece and Rome |
| 7 May 1949 | Charlie Dunbar Broad | Egoism as a theory of human motives |
| 3 June 1950 | Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard | Social anthropology: Past and present |
| 2 June 1951 | (George) Gilbert Aimé Murray | Till Nous came and put things in order |
| 7 June 1952 | Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler | Archaeology and the transmission of ideas |
| 6 June 1953 | Raymond William Firth | The study of values by social anthropologists |
| 6 May 1954 | Leon Roth | A contemporary moralist: Albert Camus |
| 7 May 1955 | Robert Hugh Kirk Marett | Indian civilizations of Mexico and Peru |
| 5 May 1956 | Kathleen Mary Kenyon | Jericho and its setting in Near Eastern history |
| 6 June 1957 | Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders | The social sciences and the humanities |
| 15 May 1958 | Edwin Oliver James | The threshold of religion |
| 11 March 1959 | John Bryan Ward-Perkins | A Parthian view of the Eastern frontier of the Roman Empire: the recent excavations at Hatra |
| 7 June 1960 | Humayun Kabir | Britain and India |
| 1 February 1961 | Herbert Ian Priestly Hogbin | Morality without religion |
| 8 February 1962 | Courtney Arthur Ralegh Radford | Evidences of Norse settlement in Britain |
| 2 May 1963 | Sir Eric Ashby | An anatomy of academic life |
| 18 February 1965 | (Herman) Max Gluckman | Moral crises: Magical and secular solutions |
| 25 February 1965 | (Herman) Max Gluckman | Moral crises: Magical and secular solutions |
| 24 February 1966 | Stuart Piggott | The origins of the village settlement in prehistoric Europe |
| 18 May 1967 | William Calvert Kneale | The responsibility of criminals |
| 9 May 1968 | Sir Alister Clavering Hardy | Marett, anthropology and religion |
| 8 May 1969 | Jacqueline Worms de Romilly | Historical necessity in the fifth century, B.C. |
| 13 May 1971 | Leslie Alcock | South Cadbury excavations - Camelot, 1966–70 |
| 4 November 1971 | (John Percy Vyvian) Dacre Balsdon | Romulus and Remus; the birth of a legend |
| 18 May 1972 | Constantine Athanasius Trypanis | Greek folk songs |
| 8 November 1973 | Willard Van Orman Quine | Substitutional quantification |
| 12 November 1974 | Meyer Fortes | West African seasonal festivals and the ancestors |
| 20 November 1975 | Martin Biddle | Patterns of authority? Problems in the emergence of Anglo-Saxon England |
| 18 November 1976 | David Walter Hamlyn | The phenomena of love and hate |
| 3 November 1977 | Sir Edmund Ronald Leach | The threshold of religion |
| 14 November 1978 | Arthur Ernest Mourant | John Ranulph de la Haule Marett, pioneer biological anthropologist |
| 8 November 1979 | Charles Thomas | Hermits on islands or priests in a landscape? Early Christianity in the Isles of Scilly |
| 25 November 1980 | Richard G. Swinburne | Are mental events identical with brain events? |
| 12 May 1982 | Malcolm Donald McLeod | African art and time |
| 17 May 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 |
| 8 May 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 |
| 26 April 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 |
| 29 April 1994 | Fredrik Barth | Ethnicity and the concept of culture |
| 28 April 1995 | Alan Donald James Macfarlane | Illth and wealth |
| 26 April 1996 | Signe L. Howell | "May blessings come, may mischiefs go!" Living kinds as agents of transition and transformation among the Lio |
| 25 April 1997 | Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd | The uses and abuses of classification: Ancient Greek and Chinese reflections |
| 1 May 1998 | Ruth Sophia Padel | How myth uses us: Greek "Guyville" and women's rock music |
| 30 April 1999 | Martin David Goodman | Explaining religious change |
| 5 May 2000 | Piers Vitebsky | Forgetting the ancestors: Living without the dead |
| 27 April 2001 | James Patrick Mallory | The cultural worlds of the Indo-Europeans |
| 26 April 2002 | Roger Just | Of fishers and boats, and sacrificial goats: Interpreting the commonplace |
| 2 May 2003 | Jonathan Webber | Making Sense of the Past: Reflections on Jewish Historical Consciousness |
| 30 April 2004 | John Bennet | Archaeologies of Homer |
| 16 September 2005 | Harvey Whitehouse | The evolution and history of religion |
| 12 May 2006 | Christina Toren | How do we know what is true? The case of mana in Fiji |
| 27 April 2007 | Jonathan Parry | Hegemony and resistance: Trade union politics in central India |
| 25 April 2008 | Sherry Beth Ortner | Indie producers: Class and the production of value in the American independent film scene |
| 1 May 2009 | Scott Atran | Talking to the Enemy: The Dreams, Delusions and Science of Sacred Causes and Conflicts |
| 30 April 2010 | Byron J. Good | Theorizing the 'Subject' of Medical and Psychiatric Anthropology |
| 6 May 2011 | Terence S. Turner | Beauty and The Beast: Humanity, Animality and Animism in the Thought of an Amazonian People |
| 27 April 2012 | Adam Kuper | Anthropologists and the Bible |
| 2 May 2014 | Birgit Meyer | How to Capture the Wow: Awe and the Study of Religion |