Henrietta L. Moore

is the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

Henrietta L. Moore.
From Writing

Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions

still life coverRanging from African initiation rituals to Japanese anime, and from sex in virtual worlds to Schubert songs, Henrietta Moore focuses on how best we might approach the relationship between critical thought and politics, as well as the dynamics of intimacy and meaning in contemporary cultural and social life. More »

From Events

Hell’s Angels

hay2013From John Milton to the Chapman Brothers, artists and poets have delighted in visions of Hell, whilst Heaven is often nowhere to be seen. Does this mean we have lost our way? Should we seek secular visions of heaven or abandon these remanants of medieval superstition? Henrietta L. Moore, Charles Sturridg, Sally El Hosaini and Marcel Theroux imagine heaven and hell at this year’s Hay Festival. More »

From Audio+Video

BBC World Service podcast: The Why Factor

coming of ageWhy do different cultures mark ‘coming of age’? Why is there so much variety between cultures? For some the advent of adulthood is celebrated by lavish parties, for others, by endurance tests and initiation ceremonies. Henrietta L. Moore gives her opinion for the BBC World Service programme The Why Factor with Mike Williams. More »

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From Writing

Thinking about politics and the internet: time to update our perspective

In this piece for openDemocracy.net Henrietta L. Moore and Sabine Selchow introduce their reconceptualisation of the Internet as a set of interactions in process, turning away from mainstream understandings of it as a ‘tool’ and / or ‘space’ that enables political action. This reconceptualisation means that questions about what is happening ‘on’ the Internet, and how the internet is used, by whom, and with what impact on the ‘actual’ world no longer have sufficient analytical purchase. More »

From Writing

Sociality: New Directions

The notion of ‘sociality’ is now widely used within the social sciences and humanities. However, what is meant by the term varies radically, and the contributors to this edited collection identify the strengths and weaknesses of current definitions and their deployment in the social sciences. By developing their own rigorous and innovative theory of human sociality, they re-set the framework of the debate and open up new possibilities for conceptualizing other forms of sociality, such as that of animals or materials. More »

From Research

Henrietta Moore and Caleb Adebayo Folorunso win British Academy Award

Professor Moore and Professor Adebayo Folorunso (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) have been awarded a British Academy International Partnerships and Mobility Award, 2013-2015. The award will bring together a range of archaeologists, anthropologists and environmental scientists working on interdisciplinary understandings of intensive agricultural practices in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria. More »