| Date | Lecturer | Title | Publication |
| 17 May 1922 | E.S. Hartland | The evolution of kinship: an African study | |
| 27 May 1926 | Alexandre Moret | La mise à mort du Dieu en Égypte | |
| 22 February 1930 | Paul Rivet | Les Océaniens | |
| 10 May 1934 | H.J. Rose | Concerning parallels | |
| 23 May 1938 | J.H. Hutton | A primitive philosophy of life | |
| 5 May 1942 | R.M. Dawkins | Soul and body in the folklore of modern Greece | |
| 1 May 1947 | H.J. Fleure | Some aspects of British civilization | |
| 21 November 1950 | Henri Frankfort | The problem of similarity in ancient Near-Eastern religions | |
| 28 October 1954 | Isaac Schapera | The sin of Cain | |
| 30 October 1958 | Louis Dumont | Le renoncement dans les religions de l’Inde | |
| 30 October 1962 | W.K.C. Guthrie | The lesser world: some implications of the microcosmic view of man in Greek thought | |
| 18 October 1966 | Denise Paulme-Schaeffner | Sur deux thèmes d’origine de la mort en Afrique occidentale | |
| 19 November 1970 | Claude Lévi-Strauss | Myth and ritual | |
| 3 December 1974 | G.S. Kirk | Adonis: a demi-god still divided | Unpublished |
| 30 November 1978 | James Littlejohn | Magic boughs | Unpublished |
| 28 October 1982 | Sir Edmund Leach | Kingship and divinity | |
| 7 May 1987 | G.E.R. Lloyd | Early Greek science and the limits of rationality | |
| 6 November 1991 | David John Parkin | Nemi in the modern world: return of the exotic? | |
| 16 May 1996 | Nancy D. Munn | Excluded spaces: the figure in the Australian Aboriginal landscape | |
| 9 May 2000 | J.D.Y. Peel | Time and difference in the anthropology of religion | Unpublished |
| 17 September 2005 | Veena Das | Ethics of the ordinary: figures of life and law in the context of urban poverty | |
| Date | Lecturer | Title | Publication |
| 26 November 1923 | John Roscoe | Immigrants and their influence in the lake region of Central Africa | |
| 2 March 1927 | R.R. Marett | The diffusion of culture | |
| 26 November 1931 | Sir Arthur Evans | The earlier religion of Greece in the light of Cretan discoveries | |
| 14 May 1935 | A.H. Gardiner | The attitude of the ancient Egyptians to death and the dead | |
| 24 February 1939 | A.R. Radcliffe-Brown | Taboo | |
| 26 May 1943 | J.L. Myres | Mediterranean culture | |
| 13 May 1948 | E.E. Evans-Pritchard | The divine kingship of the Shilluk of the Nilotic Sudan | |
| 14 May 1952 | Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf | The after-life in Indian tribal belief | |
| 7 March 1955 | Raymond Firth | The fate of the soul: an interpretation of some primitive concepts | |
| 5 March 1959 | Monica Wilson | Divine kings and the 'breath of men' | |
| 6 May 1963 | Kenneth Little | Voluntary associations and African social change | |
| 10 March 1967 | Lucy Mair | Witchcraft and sorcery | |
| 18 November 1971 | Fred Eggan | The rituals of headhunting in the mountain province, Philippines | |
| 5 March 1976 | Mary Douglas | Mistletoe | |
| 30 April 1982 | M.N. Srinivas | Some reflections of the nature of the caste hierarchy | |
| 14 October 1983 | Fredrik Barth | Symbol, worldview and creativity in some Inner New Guinea religious traditions | |
| 30 October 1987 | Robin Horton | Back to Frazer? | |
| 5 March 1992 | Godfrey Lienhardt | Frazer's anthropology: science and sensibility | 24:1–12. |
| 22 November 1996 | Alfred Gell | Royal ritual and coercive deference in Central India | |
| 11 May 2001 | Chris Hann | Creeds, cultures and the 'witchery of music' | |
| 6 May 2004 | Clifford Geertz | Shifting aims, moving targets: on the anthropology of religion | |
| 31 October 2008 | Paul Rabinow | On the anthropology of the contemporary | |
| 17 October 2016 | Jane Guyer | Anthropological Recuperations: Intellectual and Social | |
| Date | Lecturer | Title | Publication |
| 1924 | W.J. Perry | The age of the gods | |
| 7 September 1928 | E.A. Westermarck | The study of popular sayings | |
| 4 March 1932 | Sir Arthur Keith | The Aryan theory as it stands to-day | |
| 4 February 1936 | W.R. Dawson | The magicians of pharaoh | |
| 1940 | W.R. Halliday | The riddle of Apollo | |
| 18 April 1944 | Morris Ginsberg | Moral progress | |
| 6 December 1948 | Alexander Murray Macbeath | The relationship of primitive morality and religion | |
| 28 April 1953 | Max Gluckman | Rituals of rebellion in South-East Africa | |
| 28 November 1957 | Meyer Fortes | The idea of destiny in West African religions | |
| 1959 | J.G. Peristiany | Honour | |
| 9 March 1967 | Ian Cunnison | Analysis of an interregnum in the dynasty of the Eastern Lunda | Unpublished |
| 29 January 1969 | E.R. Dodds | Greek anthropology and the idea of progress | |
| 1972 | No appointment | | |
| 28 February 1977 | Ernest Gellner | A theory of nationalism | |
| 22 April 1981 | Peter Worsley | Straw men and ideal types: non-Western medical systems | |
| 24 April 1985 | Gilbert Lewis | The look of magic | |
| 18 April 1990 | Peter Ucko | Whose culture is it anyway? | |
| 7 December 1993 | Alexander Fenton | The food of the gods | |
| 29 October 1997 | Paul Henley | Narratives of the noble savage: history, ethnography and iconography in the construction of Amazonian alterity | |
| 5 March 2002 | Margaret A. Mackay | Why study Scottish folklore? | Unpublished |
| 2006 | No appointment | | |
| Date | Lecturer | Title | Publication |
| 27 November 1925 | Bronisław Malinowski | Myth in primitive psychology | |
| 18 October 1929 | A.C. Haddon | The religion of a primitive people | |
| 30 November 1933 | C.G. Seligman | Egypt and Negro Africa: a study in divine kingship | |
| 7 January 1938 | Henry Balfour | Spinners and weavers in anthropological research | |
| 1941 | No appointment | | |
| 23 October 1946 | E.W. Smith | Plans and people!: a dynamic science of man in the service of Africa | |
| 10 November 1949 | V. Gordon Childe | Magic, craftsmanship and science | |
| 26 June 1953 | E. Franklin Frazier | The evolution of religion among American Negroes | |
| 20 November 1956 | C. Daryll Forde | The context of belief: a consideration of fetishism among the Yakö | |
| 28 November 1961 | E. Estyn Evans | Atlantic Europe: the pastoral heritage | |
| 3 February 1966 | Audrey Richards | The changing world of the anthropologist | |
| 21 October 1969 | W.M. Williams | Ecological Models | Unpublished |
| Nov 1973 | Alan Macfarlane | Clio's task: the potential of historical anthropology | |
| 1978 | Georges Balandier | Africanist anthropology and the problem of power | Unpublished |
| 29 April 1982 | Marshall Sahlins | Captain James Cook; or, the dying god | |
| 1 May 1986 | Marilyn Strathern | Out of context: the persuasive fictions of anthropology | |
| 1 November 1990 | Maurice Bloch | The lessons and limitations of cognitive sciences for anthropology | |
| Nov 1994 | Jack Goody | Cognitive contradictions and universals: creation and evolution in oral cultures | |
| 20 November 1998 | Joanna Overing | The efficacy of laughter: the ludic side of magic within Amazonian sociality | |
| 2003 | No appointment | | |
