# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-ranulph-marett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:24:27.545Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-ranulph-marett"
name: "Robert Ranulph Marett"
slug: "robert-ranulph-marett"
description: "Robert Ranulph Marett was a British ethnologist and a proponent of the British Evolutionary School of cultural anthropology. Founded by Marett's older colleague, Edward Burnett Tylor, it asserted that modern primitive societies provide evidence for phases in the evolution of culture, which it attempted to recapture via comparative and historical methods. Marett focused primarily on the anthropology of religion. Studying the evolutionary origin of religions, he modified Tylor's animistic theory to include the concept of mana. Marett's anthropological teaching and writing career at Oxford University spanned the early 20th century before World War Two. He trained many notable anthropologists. He was a colleague of John Myres, and through him, studied Aegean archaeology."
tagline: "British ethnologist (1866–1943)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1866-06-13"
deathDate: "1943-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump