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Professor Henrietta L. Moore
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William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Director Culture and Globalisation Programme, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
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short biography
Henrietta L. Moore is the William Wyse Chair of
Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge
and Director of the Culture and Globalisation
Programme at LSE's
Centre for the Study of Global Governance.
Previously she was LSE Deputy Director for research
and external relations and served as the Director of
the Gender Institute at the LSE from 1994-1999. She has held numerous Visiting Appointments in the United States, Germany, Norway, South Africa, among other places.
Professor Moore has a continuing long term research engagement with Africa. Her research programme has focused on gender, livelihood strategies, social transformation and symbolic systems. She is one of the leading theorist of gender in Social Anthropology, and her work has developed a distinctive approach to the analysis of the interrelations of material and symbolic gender systems, embodiment and performance, and identity and sexuality. She
has written and lectured on Social Theory,
Epistemology, Feminist Theory, Anthropology, Gender,
Space, Development and Social Enterprise.
Professor Moore is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.
research interests
Anthropology and Psychoanalysis, Contemporary Anthropological Theory and Cultural Analysis, Culture and Globalisation, Gender and Social Change, Theory in the Social Sciences, Feminist Theory.
Geographical Areas: East and Central Africa, Europe, West Africa, India
latest audio files
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14-Jan-2009, BBC Radio 4
Thinking Allowed -
Moral Relativism
Henrietta L. Moore discusses the relationship of culture and morality in the debate on a universal notion of human rights with Laurie Taylor, Steven Lukes and Conor Gearty.
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08-Oct-2008, BBC Radio 4
Thinking Allowed -
Obesity
Henrietta L. Moore discusses the
cultural history of obesity with Laurie
Taylor and Sander L. Gilman.
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Find more audio files featuring Professor Moore here:
recent publications
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Moore, Henrietta L. (2007)
The Subject of Anthropology: gender, symbolism and psychoanalysis. Polity Press.
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Moore, Henrietta L. (2007) ‘The Failure of Pluralism’ in (eds) Y. Hernlund and B. Shell-Duncan
Transcultural Bodies: Female Genital Cutting in Global Context. Rutgers University Press.
Moore, Henrietta L. and David Held (eds) (2008) Cultural Politics in a Global Age. Oxford: One World.
Moore, Henrietta L. (2006) ‘The Future of Gender or the End of a Brilliant Career’ in
Feminist Anthropology in (eds) P. Geller and M. Stockett. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Moore, Henrietta L. and D. T. Sanders (eds) (2005) Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing
Moore, Henrietta L. (2005) ‘The Truths of Anthropology’. Cambridge Anthropology, Vol. 25(1).
Moore, Henrietta L. (2005) ‘Whatever happened to women and men? Gender and other crises in Anthropology’ in Trabalhos de Antropologia e Etnologia, Vol. 45(1-2). Portugal: Porto Sociedad Portuguesa de Antropologia e Etnologia
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news
07-May-2009
Professor Moore was appointed to the Scientific Council of the European Research Council for four years
Complete publication list
All audio files featuring Professor Moore
Culture and Globalisation Programme
Contact
For an appointment with Professor Moore please contact: Gloria Pereira
email
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