1909-1920
See also members of the OU Anthropological Society.
The chief feature of each meeting of the Society was a talk, or series of shorter talks, by members of the society or invited anthropologists on specific topics. These topics were recorded in the Society’s minute books and other records. They can be, very broadly, defined as falling into four separate categories. The first were topics which related to material culture, specifically to ethnographic objects whether from the UK or abroad (in the UK many might call these folklore or social history objects). The next category would be defined today as social anthropological in subject matter, and the third as archaeological. The final category is talks about physical anthropology. These categories broadly fitted with the themes of the Diploma in Anthropology, and the interests of the staff and students who contributed to Anthropology at Oxford in this period.
It is interesting to see that the two most common topics were social anthropological (taken at its widest definition to include folklore accounts etc), and archaeology with particular reference to the prehistoric.
|
Subject of Lecture / Time |
Material Culture |
Social Anthropology |
Archaeology |
Physical Anthropology |
Meetings at which objects exhibited |
|
1909 |
1 |
7 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
|
1910 |
1 |
6 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
|
1911 |
3 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
|
1912 |
1 |
4 |
6 |
1 |
1 |
|
1913 |
0 |
8 |
6 |
0 |
4 |
|
1914 |
0 |
7 |
5 |
2 |
4 |
|
1915 |
2 |
6 |
6 |
1 |
3 |
|
1916 |
2 |
5 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
|
1917 |
6 |
5 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
|
1918 |
3 |
7 |
5 |
2 |
5 |
|
1919 |
3 |
7 |
4 |
1 |
3 |
|
1920 |
1 |
7 |
7 |
2 |
1 |
|
Totals |
23 |
74 |
55 |
15 |
29 |
AP September 2012.
