2011 Marett Lecture announced

This year’s Marett Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Terence S Turner, Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University. The lecture, held by Exeter in association with the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, is entitled “Beauty and the beast: Humanity, animality and animism in the thought of an Amazonian people”. It will address ideas about relations between humans and animals, cultural values and the loss of culture.

The lecture will take place on Friday 6 May 2011 at 5pm in the Saskatchewan Room, and will be followed by drinks at 6pm.