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'''Robert Ranulph Marett'''
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RAI Council 1910 Member<br />RAI Council 1911 Member<br />RAI Council 1912-13 Member<br />RAI Council 1915 Member<br />RAI Council 1924 Member<br />RAI Council 1925 Member<br />RAI Council 1926 Member<br />RAI Council 1932-33 Member<br />
=== House Notes ===
1896.03.10 proposed by J.L. Myres<br /><br />Reader in Anthropology in the University of Oxford<br /><br />1939 HML Charity and the struggle for existence Delivered 28th Nov. at 21 Bedford Square<br />death noted in the report of the council 1942-43
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
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.<br /><br />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<br />