Robert Ranulph Marett

Robert Ranulph Marett MA, DSc
Born	1866
Died	1943
Residence	Exeter College Oxford; Westbury Lodge, Norham Road, Oxford
Occupation	academic ethnologist
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow - life compounder elected_AI 1896 societies Folklore Society British Academy Sociological Institute British Speleological Association

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RAI Council 1910 Member
RAI Council 1911 Member
RAI Council 1912-13 Member
RAI Council 1915 Member
RAI Council 1924 Member
RAI Council 1925 Member
RAI Council 1926 Member
RAI Council 1932-33 Member

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Reader in Anthropology in the University of Oxford

1939 HML Charity and the struggle for existence Delivered 28th Nov. at 21 Bedford Square

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Robert Ranulph Marett (13 June 1866 – 18 February 1943) was a British ethnologist. He was an exponent of what is sometimes called the Evolutionary School or more precisely the British Evolutionary School of Cultural anthropology. Founded by Marett's older colleague, Alfred Edward Taylor, it asserted that modern primitive societies evidence remnants of phases in the evolution of culture, which it attempted to recapture by comparative and historical methods. Marett focused primarily on the anthropology of religion. Asserting with Tylor the evolutionary origin of religions he modified Tylor's animistic theory to include the concept of mana. His anthropological teaching and writing career at Oxford University spanned the earlier 20th century prior to the Second World War. He trained many notable anthropologists.He was a colleague of John Myres and through him connected to the world of Aegean archaeology.

Born Jersey; died Oxford. Tutor, and then Rector, Exeter College, Oxford. Reader, and then Professor, in Social Anthropology, Oxford. Honorary degrees from St Andrews and Oxford

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External Publications

Origin and Validity in Ethics (1902)
The Threshold of Religion (Second, Revised and Enlarged ed.). London: Methuen and Co. Ltd. 1914 [1909].
The Birth of Humility (1910)
Anthropology. New York; London: Henry Holt and Company; Williams and Norgate. 1912.
Progress and History (1916)
Psychology and Folk-lore. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd. 1920.
Compendium. The Diffusion of Culture (1927) Man in the Making: An Introduction to Anthropology (1928)
The Raw Material of Religion (1929)
Faith, Hope and Charity in Primitive Religion (1930–1932)
Sacraments of Simple Folk (1930–1932)
Head, Heart and Hands in Human Evolution (1935)
Tylor (1936)
Man in the Making (1937), New Edition
A Jerseyman at Oxford (1941), autobiography

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