Henrietta L. Moore
is the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
Smartphones and satellite technology enable us to navigate every area of our lives, but do we risk losing something in the process? Charles Sturridge, Polly Morland and Henrietta L. Moore imagine a mapless existence @ Hay 2013. More »
We try to avoid it, we resent it, and we fear it: disruption is seen as deviation and mutation. Why? Henrietta L. Moore pleads for the defence at Hay Festival 2013. More »
Are new forms of aesthetic delight on the rise, and if so, what will be the consequences for our culture? Join artist Sokari Douglas Camp and Henrietta L. Moore in discussing ‘the new beautiful’ at Hay Festival 2013. More »
In this interview, Henrietta L. Moore talks about the meaning of the 2012 European Association of Social Anthropologists-conference theme “Uncertainty and Disquiet”, the tradition of the discipline in the UK and anthropology´s contemporary challenges. More »
This paper suggests an alternative understanding of the Internet and its role in contemporary politics. Rather than taking it as a tool or a space for politics, the paper concpetualises the Internet as a set of interactions in process that constitute the political, and indeed the social and the economic. As such it is not a tool or a space to enable life, but life itself. More »
Listen to Henrietta L. Moore discussing kinship with Maurice Godelier, Adam Kuper and Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4 (first broadcast: 13 June 2012). More »
In the Indian call centre or ‘outsourcing’ industry, workers are trained to emulate the American or British workers which they have replaced. BBC Radio 4′s Laurie Taylor is joined by Henrietta Moore to talk to Shehzad Nadeem about the hybrid culture these Asian employees have created. More »
Ranging 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 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 »
Why 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »