Author:Robert Ranulph Marett

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Robert Ranulph Marett (1866–1943)

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British ethnologist. Exponent of the British evolutionary school, he dealt with religious ethnology. In this field he modified the evolutionary scale of religion fixed by E. B. Tylor, which placed animism in the first place. Marett articulated the conception of (magical pre-animism) an impersonal force, identified with the Melanesian term of mana. President of the Société Jersiaise

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "R. R. M."

Works

• "Obituary: Edmund Toulmin Nicolle," in The Times (1929)
• "Prayer," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Religion," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Primitive Religion)
• "Ritual," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Contributions to Folk-Lore

• "Andrew Lang: Folklorist and Critic" in Folk-Lore, 23 (1912), pp. 363−366
• "Presidential Address: War and Savagery" in Folk-Lore, 26 (1915), pp. 10−27
• "Presidential Address: The Transvaluation of Culture" in Folk-Lore, 29 (1918), pp. 15−33
• Review of W. H. F. Basevi’s The Burial of the Dead. in volume 31 (1920) pp. 161–163
• Review of W. McDougall’s The Group Mind in volume 31 (1920) pp. 250–253
• Review of Edward Clodd’s Magic in Names and in Other Things in volume 31 (1920) pp. 331–333

Works about this author

• "Marett, Robert Ranulph," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.