This article discusses the recent conversion to radical Protestant beliefs in a community in northern Kenya that has resulted in new forms of knowledge and agency. The moral continuities and discontinuities between researcher and researched cannot in this situation be glossed by making the informants rational in context or by asserting the existence of culturally distinct worldviews.
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Africa
Moore, H. L. (2009). ‘Epistemology and Ethics: Perspectives from Africa’ Social Analysis, 53(2): 207-218
Moore, H. L. (2007). The Subject of Anthropology: Gender, Symbolism and Psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Polity Press.
‘The Subject of Anthropology’ draws on anthropology, feminism and psychoanalysis to develop an original and provocative theory of gender and of how we become sexed beings. Arguing that the Oedipus complex is no longer the fulcrum of debate between anthropology and psychoanalysis, Moore demonstrates how recent theorizing on subjectivity, agency and culture has opened up new possibilities for rethinking the relationship between gender, sexuality and symbolism.
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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.
Bringing together thirteen essays, Transcultural Bodies provides an ethnographically rich exploration of FGC among African diasporas in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia.
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Moore, Henrietta L. and D. T. Sanders (eds) (2001) Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Post Colonial Africa. London: Routledge
This volume sets out recent thinking on witchcraft in Africa, paying particular attention to variations in meanings and practices.
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Moore, Henrietta L, T. Sanders and B. Kaare (eds) (1999) Those who Play with Fire: Gender and Fertility in Africa. London: Athlone
This edited volume explores the ways in which gender categories permeate African systems of thought and ritual practices
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Moore, Henrietta L. (1996). Space, Text, and Gender. 2nd ed., Guilford Press.
This study focuses on the relationship between the organization of household space and gender relations, showing how that relation shifts due to changing social and economic conditions.
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Moore, Henrietta L. and and M.A. Vaughan (1994) Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition and Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990. New York: Heinemann.
Winner of the 1995 Herskovits Prize for the best book published on Africa, African Studies Association, USA
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Moore, Henrietta L. (1988) Feminism and Anthropology. Cambridge
This is the first book which examines the nature and significance of a feminist critique in anthropology. It offers a clear introduction to, and balanced assessment of, the theoretical and practical issues raised by the development of a feminist anthropology.
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