TA44 – EASA Paris #1 Henrietta L. Moore

This podcast was recorded at the 12th European Association of
Social Anthropologists conference in Nanterre, Paris in July 2012
where I had the chance to interview Professor Henrietta Moore from
the University of Cambridge.We talked about the meaning of the EASA
conference theme “Uncertainty and Disquiet”, the tradition of the
discipline in the UK and anthropology´s contemporary challenges. We
touch on issues concerning the decline of funding, increasing
protests and pressures of mobility as well as open access
approaches, such as the HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory
(http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau). Professor Moore gives us
her perspective on theoretical avenues pivotal to the discipline
and her criteria for good anthropology and well-written
ethnographies. She will also talk about the reasons for her
long-term fascination for anthropology and give young
anthropologists some advice for their academic career. Henrietta
Moore has a continuing long-term research engagement with Africa.
Her research programme has focused on gender, livelihood
strategies, social transformation and symbolic systems. She is one
of the leading theorists of gender in Social Anthropology, and her
work has developed a distinctive approach to the analysis of the
interrelations of material and symbolic gender systems, embodiment
and performance, identity and sexuality.