Henrietta Moore (social anthropologist)

Henrietta Moore (2018)

Dame Henrietta Louise Moore , DBE (born May 18, 1957 ) is an English social anthropologist . She is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor of the William Wyse Chair in Social Anthropology at Cambridge University . Previously, Henrietta Moore was Vice Rector for Research and External Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE) from 2002 to 2005 and Head of the Gender Institute at the LSE from 1994 to 1999.

career

Henrietta Moore is a social theorist and feminist anthropologist. She developed a characteristic method for comparative analysis of gender and sexuality, and of the connections between culture and globalization . Her recent work focuses on virtual worlds , new technology, online identities and the relationship between globalization and people's self-image .

She has been involved in research on Africa for many years, with a focus on gender research , securing livelihoods , social change and development. She is committed to the application of social science knowledge in business, art and politics.

She is the chairman and co-founder of SHM Productions Ltd , a research and innovation consultancy that operates in both the public and private sectors. SHM is based on the principle that human motivation is the foundation of business success and that it is critical to innovation in the public and private sectors.

She has had numerous visiting lectureships in the United States, Germany, Norway, South Africa and other countries.

In 2007 she was appointed a Fellow of the British Academy . She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts , an academic member of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences , a member of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth , a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and a member of the American Association of Anthropologists .

In 2009 she was appointed to the Scientific Council of the European Research Council. In 2001 she became a member of the Barbican Center Trust. This is dedicated to the artistic programs and learning programs of the Barbican Center, for example the Barbican Young Orchestra , literary programs of the center and collaborations with schools in East London .

After the retirement of Marilyn Strathern Henrietta Moore was appointed to the William Wyse Chair in Cambridge of 2008. In 2009 she became a Fellow Professor at Jesus College, Cambridge .

Publications

Overview (selection)

• Still Life: Hopes Desires and Satisfactions. Cambridge: Polity Press 2011
• Cultural Politics in a Global Age: Uncertainty, Solidarity and Innovation. (eds.) David Held and Henrietta L. Moore. Oxford: One World 2008
• The Subject of Anthropology: Gender, Symbolism and Psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Polity Press 2007
• The Mutual State and How to Build It (with Ed Mayo). London: New Economics Foundation 2001
• Space, Text and Gender: An Anthropological Study of Marakwet of Kenya. 2nd edition - new introduction and conclusion. New York, Guilford Publishing Inc. 1996
• A Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology and Gender. Cambridge: Polity Press 1994
• Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition and Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990 (with Megan A. Vaughan). New York: Heinemann and London: James Currey 1994. (Winner of the 1995 Herskovitz Prize )
• Feminism and Anthropology. Cambridge Polity Press 1988
• Space, Text and Gender: An Anthropological Study of the Marakwet of Kenya. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1986

Still Life: Hopes Desires and Satisfaction (2011)

In this book, Henrietta Moore examines the extent to which current theories of globalization are appropriate to the realities of people's lives. Instead of studying abstract processes, she examines the hopes, desires and their satisfaction in the daily life of individual people.

She draws on a wide range of examples, from African initiation rites to Japanese anime , from cybersex to songs by Franz Schubert . Based on this, she examines how the human subject's ability to shape itself and to transform itself socially influences the shaping of culture in the age of globalization. It shows how the ideas of social analysts and laypeople combine and separate from one another. She advocates ethics based on the understanding that people have the need to be culturally involved and to shape change.

The Subject of Anthropology: Gender, Symbolism and Psychoanalysis (2007)

In this book, Henrietta Moore draws on insights from anthropology, feminism and psychoanalysis. She develops an original and provocative theory of how we develop our gender identity. Using detailed ethnographic surveys in Africa and Melanesia , she compares the strengths and weaknesses of a number of theories from anthropology, feminism and psychoanalysis.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Moore, Professor Henrietta. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 1, 2014 ; accessed on November 27, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ MOORE, Professor HL (18/05 / 1957-). Archived from the original on June 6, 2011 ; accessed on November 27, 2013 (English). 

Web links

• Henrietta Moore's personal website