Dame Henrietta L. Moore

Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore, DBE, FBA, FAcSS (born 18 May 1957) is a British social anthropologist and leading global thinker on prosperity. She is Founder and Director of the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, part of the Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment, and holds Chair in Culture, Philosophy and Design at University College, London.

Books in order of publication:

Space, text and gender: an anthropological study of the Marakwet of Kenya. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. – 1986

Feminism and anthropology – 1988

The Polity reader in gender studies. – 1994

Cutting down trees: gender, nutrition and change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890–1990. – 1994

A passion for difference: essays in anthropology and gender – 1994

Space, text and gender: an anthropological study of Marakwet of Kenya. – 1996

Magical interpretations, material realities: modernity, witchcraft, and the occult in postcolonial Africa.  – 2001

Building the mutual state: findings from the virtual think tank http://www.themutualstate.org. – 2001

Anthropology in theory: issues in epistemology (2nd ed.). – 2006

The subject of anthropology: gender, symbolism and psychoanalysis. – 2007

Cultural politics in a global age: uncertainty, solidarity, and innovation. – 2008

Prosperity in the Twenty-First Century: Concepts, Models and Metrics (Global Prosperity in Thought and Practice) (1st ed.). – 2023

Roadkill: Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars. – 2025