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