H L Moore
Biographic Data
| ID | 9437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H L Moore |
| GIVEN NAMES | H L |
| FAMILY NAME | Moore |
| SIGNATURE | MOORE H L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5042-1802 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 238 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1915 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Don’t stop drawing, don’t stop research: Citizen social science as a network of solidarity for Palestine
The devastation and mass killing caused by Israel’s war on Gaza have created an overwhelming sense of helplessness for those committed to peace, freedom and justice for Palestine. The indiscriminate killing of civilians has been perpetrated on a scale that amounts to genocide, according to a 2024 report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur. This is unfolding before our eyes as we watch the news on our screens, but there is little we can do to…
Citizen Social Science for Improved Quality of Life: Research, Interventions, Evaluations
This article argues for a new methodological approach to research and impact in the social sciences—one based on sustained investment in people and projects at the community level, with the explicit aim of creating citizen-led solutions. The article draws on five years of experience in developing a citizen science methodology in Beirut, Lebanon, in which collaboration between academic researchers and citizen scientists has generated citizen-led i…
Towards a Relational Understanding of Vulnerability: The Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon Through a Feminist Lens
Recent debates on vulnerability have considered how to best define and measure it in order to account for the various factors that shape people’s susceptibility to harm. This article reads humanitarian and development notions of vulnerability against the relational and interdependent view put forward by feminist scholars. Such a conceptual interrogation, which examines the broader assumptions underpinning aid programming, is especially relevant a…
Unintended consequences, conflict and resilience in a small-scale irrigation development, Marakwet, Kenya
This article examines the development, early operation and subsequent failure of the Tot-Kolowa Red Cross irrigation scheme in Kenya's Kerio Valley. Initially conceived as a technical solution to address regional food insecurity, the scheme aimed to scale up food production through the implementation of a fixed pipe irrigation system and the provision of agricultural inputs for cash cropping. A series of unfolding circumstances, however, necessit…
Local meanings and ‘sticky’ measures of the good life: Redefining prosperity with and for communities in east London
From farm to table: Exploring food handling and hygiene practices of meat and milk value chain actors in Ethiopia
Livestock value chains constitute a source of livelihood for meat and milk value chain actors in Ethiopia, from dairy farmers to other associated value chain actors such as milk traders, abattoir workers, public health officials, veterinarians, butcheries selling meats, milk cooperatives, artisanal milk processors, and transporters. The development of these livestock value chains, however, is constrained by poor food safety and quality, while con…
Thinking vulnerability infrastructurally: Interdependence and possibility in Lebanon’s overlapping crises
The notion of ‘vulnerability’ has gained growing traction in a range of different fields, from disaster risk reduction to feminist theory. This increased academic use has been paralleled by a rise in the use of the term as an operational concept in humanitarian and development policy. Using the incongruent deployments of the term as a starting point, this article examines the assumptions underpinning definitions of vulnerability in humanitarian p…
Vibrant Death: A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning
Vibrant Death links philosophy and poetry-based, corpo-affectively grounded knowledge seeking. It offers a radically new materialist theory of death, critically moving the philosophical argument beyond Christian and secular-mechanistic understandings. The book’s ethico-political figuration of vibrant death is shaped through a pluriversal conversation between Deleuzean philosophy, neo-vitalist materialism and the spiritual materialism of decolonia…
Milk and meat consumption patterns and the potential risk of zoonotic disease transmission among urban and peri-urban dairy farmers in Ethiopia
Creating awareness about the risk factors for zoonotic transmission of diseases through training and media campaigns, improving meat hygiene through better abattoir services, and inducing behavioural change around meat sourcing, raw meat and raw milk consumption, are all crucial to the successful prevention and control of the spread of zoonotic diseases, including bTB
Social and cultural conditions affecting the mental health of Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian adolescents living in and around Bar Elias, Lebanon
An estimated 1.5 million displaced Syrians live in Lebanon, sharing neighbourhoods and communal spaces with longer-term Lebanese and Palestinian residents. The Syrian Civil War has lasted over one decade. Protracted mass displacement means that many young people are growing up in neighbourhoods, towns and cities which include comparable numbers of recently displaced and longer-term residents. In this study, we explore adolescent mental health and…
Tilting relationalities: Exploring the world through possible futures of agriculture
Demography has driven increases in agricultural productivity and is in the limelight once again with questions about how we intend to feed 9 billion people on the planet. The scale of this challenge and the ecological threat from collapsing resources has generated a sense of impending crisis, but remarkably little action. The frames of reference tend towards climate change and the Anthropocene, but perhaps a more fruitful approach is to reflect o…
Sustained Citizen Science From Research to Solutions: A New Impact Model for the Social Sciences
Participatory research offers a valuable opportunity for collaboration between universities and citizens. It allows people with diverse educational and professional trajectories outside of academia to become partners in the research process, leading to multiple positive outcomes such as enhanced capacity building, contextually sensitive research design, and effective dissemination of findings. The chain of activities in the standard version of pa…
Rebuilding the post-Covid-19 economy through an industrial strategy that secures livelihoods
The Covid-19 crisis has further exacerbated the insecurity of livelihoods in the UK. This commentary reflects on what resources the UK has to fulfil the calls to ‘build back better,’ to transform the economy to prioritise health and wellbeing over economic growth. We provide critical commentary on the current industrial strategy while recognising that industrial strategy can be a tool to unite public, private and third sectors in the shared goal …
Epilogue
The notion of embodiment is a useful one precisely because it does seem to act as a bridge between the conceptual worlds of biological and socio-cultural anthropologists without threatening to traduce the underlying principles. At the present time in anthropology a certain convergence of internal and external critiques has produced a radical instability, to say anxious paralysis, about categories of knowledge and modes of knowing. However, it is …
The problem of explaining violence in the social sciences
This chapter shows extremely clearly how the goals of identity and personhood are different for women and men, and how engaged individuals are in strategies which invest in and maintain particular self-representations and social evaluations. It seems clear that individuals do constitute their self-representations as engendered subjects through several different subject positions on gender. Discourses about sexuality and gender construct women and…
Citizen social science and pathways to prosperity: Co-designing research and impact in Beirut, Lebanon
This article argues for a citizen social science methodology in which residents from the sites of inquiry play a central role in key activities of the research process and beyond: research design and data collection, presentation and publication of findings, and design and implementation of urban interventions that address challenges to quality of life. This is a way of democratising the research process through sustained engagement with communit…
The habitat of the subject
This chapter discusses ethics as a form of problematization for the urban, which is a way of approaching the urban and constituting it as an object of study. It explores why this form of problematization has emerged and what it has to offer. It also sets out how we might rethink the character of the ethical through a focus on the ethical imagination as I have developed it elsewhere. It takes African cities as the context and space of enquiry and …
Ecological Knowledge of indigenous plants among the Marakwet Community (Embobut Basin), Elgeyo Marakwet County (Kenya)
Background: Sustainable utilization and conservation of indigenous plants requires information on the Indigenous Ecological Knowledge (IEK). This study assessed IEK on plant species identification, use and management of indigenous non-medicinal plants among the Marakwet Community in Embobut Basin in Kenya, which has a wealth of such knowledge.Methods: Plant inventories for this study were done through interviews with seven elders from the Marakwe…
The Dotcom and the Digital
In Kenya, the terms dotcom and digital have become popular descriptors for particular periods of change, as well as for modes of being. The two terms' usage extends beyond reference to the age of the Internet or to encounters with new technologies. Rather, the dotcom and the digital-in different ways and in different decades-enable Kenyans to imagine with and through time. Using extensive ethnographic research and reflecting on pop music, TV adve…
Sufurias cannot bring blessings: Change, continuity and resilience in the world of Marakwet pottery, a case from western Kenya
Drawing on fieldwork conducted over multiple seasons between 2012 and 2015, this paper explores aspects of the socio-economic and political history of the Marakwet of Kenya. It does so by focusing on a particular material culture category – pottery – and tracing transformations in its production, use and exchange over several generations from the early twentieth century to the present day. This approach serves to unearth a series of personal and …
Brexit’s identity politics and the question of subjectivity
Super-diversity and the prosperous society
This article asks if and under what conditions ethnic diversity could become the foundation for a prosperous society. Recent studies on ethnic diversity and social cohesion suggest that diversity has a negative effect on social cohesion and therefore is detrimental to the social prosperity of individuals and communities. This article argues that although such a negative correlation may apply to contexts with well-consolidated ethnic groups, it do…
Prosperity in crisis and the longue durée in Africa
Understanding the evolution and tenacity of particular ways of envisaging economic growth and development for Africa requires a form of analytical history that examines how conceptual structures function over the longue durée. Such an approach is more than simply empirical analysis through time or a set of abstractions based on the self-understandings of historical agents. It involves the development of a hypothetical analytic structure which thr…
What Can Sustainability Do for Anthropology?
This chapter asks not what anthropology can do for sustainability, but what a more nuanced examination of ‘sustainability’ might do for the reinvigoration of anthropology. By questioning what it is that we seek to sustain and for whom, the politics and assumptions of recent sustainability discourse are brought into the spotlight. The essay argues that anthropology needs to move beyond a straightforward argument for defending or conserving indigen…
Back to the Grindstone? The Archaeological Potential of Grinding-Stone Studies in Africa with Reference to Contemporary Grinding Practices in Marakwet, Northwest Kenya
This article presents observations on grinding-stone implements and their uses in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, northwest Kenya. Tool use in Marakwet is contextualized with a select overview of literature on grinding-stones in Africa. Grinding-stones in Marakwet are incorporated not only into quotidian but also into more performative and ritual aspects of life. These tools have distinct local traditions laden with social as well as functional importanc…
Global Anxieties: Concept-Metaphors and Pre-Theoretical Commitments in Anthropology
This article begins by interrogating the problem of the global and the local in anthropology, and asks how their interconnections might be theorized. When anthropologists call for an examination of the global in concrete terms, they often fail to appreciate the place of 'concept-metaphors' whose purpose is to maintain ambiguity and a productive tension between universal claims and specific historical contexts. 'The global' is just such a concept-…
Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility, and Transformation in East and Southern Africa
Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, bringing rain or protesting taxation, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of 'male' and 'female' serve, through ritual, to both reimagine and transform the world. Those Who Play With Fire introduces recent gender theory to the analysis of African ethnography, exploring the ways in which ideational gender categories permeate African systems of thoug…
Landscape, time and cultural resilience: A brief history of agriculture in Pokot and Marakwet, Kenya
The Marakwet and Pokot communities of northwest Kenya are keen farmers, known notably for their creation of extensive pre-colonial irrigation networks. Over the last century both communities have been subjected to a range of external agricultural interventions but Marakwet and Pokot farming remains largely based on practices with a deeper history. We argue, however, that this continuity through time also masks smaller-scale innovations, movements…
Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990
Revisiting the irrigated agricultural landscape of the Marakwet, Kenya: Tracing Local Technology and Knowledge Over the Recent Past
This paper revisits previous work on the irrigated agricultural landscape of the Marakwet of Kenya and presents this alongside the results of new interdisciplinary archaeological and anthropological analyses that address the temporal dynamism of Marakwet farming technologies in relation to both endogenous and exogamous developments. In particular, it presents a major new re-mapping of the Marakwet irrigation system and higher-resolution analysis …
Divided We Stand: Sex, Gender and Sexual Difference
This article explores the complex relationship between sex, gender, and sexual difference, arguing against simplistic understandings of these categories. Moore critiques the tendency to conflate sex (biological) with gender (socially constructed) and advocates for recognizing the fluidity and multiplicity of both. She draws on anthropological research to illustrate how cultural norms and practices shape understandings of sex and gender, highlight…
Cutting Down Trees: Women, Nutrition and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1920–1986
CUTTING DOWN TREES: WOMEN, NUTRITION AND AGRICULTURAL CHANGE IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCE OF ZAMBIA, 1920–1986 Get access HENRIETTA MOORE, HENRIETTA MOORE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MEGAN VAUGHAN MEGAN VAUGHAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 345, October 1987, Pages 523–540, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097947 Publ…
Back to the Grindstone? The Archaeological Potential of Grinding-Stone Studies in Africa with Reference to Contemporary Grinding Practices in Marakwet, Northwest Kenya
This article presents observations on grinding-stone implements and their uses in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, northwest Kenya. Tool use in Marakwet is contextualized with a select overview of literature on grinding-stones in Africa. Grinding-stones in Marakwet are incorporated not only into quotidian but also into more performative and ritual aspects of life. These tools have distinct local traditions laden with social as well as functional importanc…
Households and gender in a South African bantustan: A comment
Women, marketplaces and exchange partners amongst the Marakwet of northwest Kenya
Based on recent fieldwork, this paper examines the intersecting economic activities of Marakwet women in northwest Kenya with a particular focus on exchange friendships. We highlight the need to expand previous definitions of tilia, based on male exchange of livestock, to include a variety of exchange friendships including those between women. Through investigating women's economic activities in local marketplaces, we demonstrate that marketplace…
Feminism and Anthropology
Prosperity in crisis and the longue durée in Africa
Understanding the evolution and tenacity of particular ways of envisaging economic growth and development for Africa requires a form of analytical history that examines how conceptual structures function over the longue durée. Such an approach is more than simply empirical analysis through time or a set of abstractions based on the self-understandings of historical agents. It involves the development of a hypothetical analytic structure which thr…
Economic Cycles: Their Law and Cause
Sustained Citizen Science From Research to Solutions: A New Impact Model for the Social Sciences
Participatory research offers a valuable opportunity for collaboration between universities and citizens. It allows people with diverse educational and professional trajectories outside of academia to become partners in the research process, leading to multiple positive outcomes such as enhanced capacity building, contextually sensitive research design, and effective dissemination of findings. The chain of activities in the standard version of pa…
Citizen social science and pathways to prosperity: Co-designing research and impact in Beirut, Lebanon
This article argues for a citizen social science methodology in which residents from the sites of inquiry play a central role in key activities of the research process and beyond: research design and data collection, presentation and publication of findings, and design and implementation of urban interventions that address challenges to quality of life. This is a way of democratising the research process through sustained engagement with communit…
The Dotcom and the Digital
In Kenya, the terms dotcom and digital have become popular descriptors for particular periods of change, as well as for modes of being. The two terms' usage extends beyond reference to the age of the Internet or to encounters with new technologies. Rather, the dotcom and the digital-in different ways and in different decades-enable Kenyans to imagine with and through time. Using extensive ethnographic research and reflecting on pop music, TV adve…
Sufurias cannot bring blessings: Change, continuity and resilience in the world of Marakwet pottery, a case from western Kenya
Drawing on fieldwork conducted over multiple seasons between 2012 and 2015, this paper explores aspects of the socio-economic and political history of the Marakwet of Kenya. It does so by focusing on a particular material culture category – pottery – and tracing transformations in its production, use and exchange over several generations from the early twentieth century to the present day. This approach serves to unearth a series of personal and …
Super-diversity and the prosperous society
This article asks if and under what conditions ethnic diversity could become the foundation for a prosperous society. Recent studies on ethnic diversity and social cohesion suggest that diversity has a negative effect on social cohesion and therefore is detrimental to the social prosperity of individuals and communities. This article argues that although such a negative correlation may apply to contexts with well-consolidated ethnic groups, it do…
Sociality Revisited: Setting a New Agenda
It is time for a revitalized theory of human sociality. This theory recognizes that humans are always embedded in a dynamic matrix of relations with human, non-human, and inhuman others, but combines this recognition with attention to the distinctive capacities of human subjects. It thus builds on recent theories of actor-networks and affect, whilst going beyond their limitations
Sex, Symbolism, and Psychoanalysis
Research Article| April 01 1997 Sex, Symbolism, and Psychoanalysis Henrietta L. Moore Henrietta L. Moore henrietta l. moore is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her recent books include A Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology and Gender (Polity P, 1994) and the second edition of Space, Text and Gender:An Anthropological Study of Marakwet of Kenya…
Unintended consequences, conflict and resilience in a small-scale irrigation development, Marakwet, Kenya
This article examines the development, early operation and subsequent failure of the Tot-Kolowa Red Cross irrigation scheme in Kenya's Kerio Valley. Initially conceived as a technical solution to address regional food insecurity, the scheme aimed to scale up food production through the implementation of a fixed pipe irrigation system and the provision of agricultural inputs for cash cropping. A series of unfolding circumstances, however, necessit…
Thinking vulnerability infrastructurally: Interdependence and possibility in Lebanon’s overlapping crises
The notion of ‘vulnerability’ has gained growing traction in a range of different fields, from disaster risk reduction to feminist theory. This increased academic use has been paralleled by a rise in the use of the term as an operational concept in humanitarian and development policy. Using the incongruent deployments of the term as a starting point, this article examines the assumptions underpinning definitions of vulnerability in humanitarian p…
Anthropology and Others
Space, Text and Gender: An Anthropological Study of the Marakwet of Kenya
Tilting relationalities: Exploring the world through possible futures of agriculture
Demography has driven increases in agricultural productivity and is in the limelight once again with questions about how we intend to feed 9 billion people on the planet. The scale of this challenge and the ecological threat from collapsing resources has generated a sense of impending crisis, but remarkably little action. The frames of reference tend towards climate change and the Anthropocene, but perhaps a more fruitful approach is to reflect o…
Economic Cycles: Their Law and Cause
Generating Economic Cycles
more apt for loquacity and ostentation than for the speculation and discovering of the more abstruse secrets of Nature; which kind of people, before they can be brought to pronounce that wise, ingenious, and modest sentence, I know it not, suffer to escape from their mouths and pens all manner of extravagancies."And he added : ' ' But amongst all the famous men that have philosophated upon this admirable effect of Nature, I wonder more at Kepler …
Synthetic Economics
The Making of Great Men: Male Domination and Power among the New Guinea Baruya
Cutting Down Trees: Women, Nutrition and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1920–1986
CUTTING DOWN TREES: WOMEN, NUTRITION AND AGRICULTURAL CHANGE IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCE OF ZAMBIA, 1920–1986 Get access HENRIETTA MOORE, HENRIETTA MOORE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MEGAN VAUGHAN MEGAN VAUGHAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 345, October 1987, Pages 523–540, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097947 Publ…
Health, nutrition and agricultural development in Northern Zambia
Farm Labour. In the Series, African Society Today
Space, Text and Gender: An Anthropological Study of the Marakwet of Kenya
Books reviewed
Leroy Vail (ed.), The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa (James Currey: London and University of California Press: Berkeley, 1989) xiv + 422pp, £12.95/£30.00. Claude Meillasoux (ed.), Verrouillage ethnique en Afrique du Sud (UNESCO: Paris, 1988) 118pp, pbk, no price indicated. Gerhard Maré and Georgina Hamilton, An Appetite for Power; Buthelezi's Inkatha and South Africa (Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1987). Mzala, Gatsha Buthelezi…
Anthropology and Others
Feminism and Anthropology
When is a Famine Not a Famine
Mirror and Metaphor: Material and Social Constructions of Reality
The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in colonial Nairobi
Journal Article The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in colonial Nairobi Get access The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in colonial Nairobi, by Luise White. Chicago University Press, Chicago, 1990. xiii + 285 pp. £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0 226 89506 8 and 0 226 89507 6. HENRIETTA MOORE HENRIETTA MOORE London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 364, July 1992, Pa…
Divided We Stand: Sex, Gender and Sexual Difference
This article explores the complex relationship between sex, gender, and sexual difference, arguing against simplistic understandings of these categories. Moore critiques the tendency to conflate sex (biological) with gender (socially constructed) and advocates for recognizing the fluidity and multiplicity of both. She draws on anthropological research to illustrate how cultural norms and practices shape understandings of sex and gender, highlight…
Households and gender in a South African bantustan: A comment
Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990
Interior Landscapes and External Worlds: The Return of Grand Theory in Anthropology 1
This paper argues that the retreat from ‘theory’ characteristic of the postmodernist turn in anthropology has not had the impact on the ethics and politics of disciplinary practice that was hoped for. One reason for this is the problematic relationship between cultural relativism and identity politics which has paralysed the critical project in the discipline and prevented a more radical interrogation of two fundamental questions: ‘what is anthro…
Sex, Symbolism, and Psychoanalysis
Research Article| April 01 1997 Sex, Symbolism, and Psychoanalysis Henrietta L. Moore Henrietta L. Moore henrietta l. moore is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her recent books include A Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology and Gender (Polity P, 1994) and the second edition of Space, Text and Gender:An Anthropological Study of Marakwet of Kenya…
The Future of Anthropological Knowledge
1 The Changing Nature of Anthropological Knowledge: An Introduction, Henrietta Moore 2 Interpreting Electron Micrographs, Emily Martin 3 Globalization and Localization: New Challenges to Rural Research 4 Anthropology, China, and the Modernities: The Geopolitics of Cultural Knowledge, Aihwa Ong 5 Traceling Theory, Anthropology, and the Discourse of Modernity in China, Mayfair Yang 6 Anthropology without Tears: How a 'Local' Sees the 'Local' and th…
The excavation of two later Iron Age fortified homesteads at Aldclune, Blair Atholl, Perth & Kinross
Two small `forts', probably large round houses, occupying a natural eminence and further defended by banks and ditches, were excavated in advance of road building. Construction began at Site 2 between the first and second centuries BC and at Site 1 between the second and third centuries AD. Two major phases of occupation were found at each site. There are notes on: `Natural topography and landuse' by I D Máté (411--12); `Charcoal identification' …
Difference and Recognition: Postmillennial Identities and Social Justice
Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility, and Transformation in East and Southern Africa
Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, bringing rain or protesting taxation, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of 'male' and 'female' serve, through ritual, to both reimagine and transform the world. Those Who Play With Fire introduces recent gender theory to the analysis of African ethnography, exploring the ways in which ideational gender categories permeate African systems of thoug…
Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa
The Business of Funding: Science, Social Science and Wealth in the United Kingdom
Anthropological Quarterly - Volume 75, Number 3, Summer 2002
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