Sally Falk Moore
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Sally Falk Moore (January 18, 1924 – May 2, 2021) was a legal anthropologist and professor emerita at Harvard University. She did her major fieldwork in Tanzania and published extensively on cross-cultural, comparative legal theory.[1]
Moore was trained as a lawyer at Columbia Law school and, after working on Wall Street, became a staff attorney at the
Graduate School at Harvard from 1985 to 1989. In 2010 she was appointed affiliated professor of international legal studies at Harvard Law School
.
Major publications
- Power and Property in Inca Peru. Morningside Heights, New York: Columbia University Press, 1958.
- Symbol and Politics in Communal Ideology: Cases and Questions. With Barbara G. Myerhoff, Cornell University Press, 1975. ISBN 0-8014-9157-6
- The Chagga and Meru of Tanzania (Ethnographic survey of Africa : East Central Africa). International African Institute, 1977. ISBN 0-85302-051-5
- Law As Process: An Anthropological Approach London; Boston: Routledge & K. Paul, 1978. ISBN 0-7100-8758-6, second edition 2000.
- Social Facts and Fabrications : "Customary" Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880-1980 (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures). Cambridge University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-521-31201-9
- Anthropology and Africa: Changing Perspectives on a Changing Scene. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1994. ISBN 0-8139-1505-8
- "Certainties Undone:Fifty Turbulent Years of Legal Anthropology, 1949-1999," Huxley Memorial Lecture, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol.7, No. 1, March 2001.
- Law and Anthropology: A Reader, (edited), Blackwell, 2004. ISBN 1-4051-0228-4
- Moralizing States and the Ethnography of the Present. American Anthropological Association, 1993. ISBN 0-913167-60-6
- Introduction to The Silicon Empire: Law, Culture And Commerce.by Michael B. Likosky. Ashgate Publishing 2005. ISBN 0-7546-2457-9
Some awards
- Ansley Prize, Columbia University 1957
- Mogan Lectures, University of Rochester, 1981
- Barnard College, Medal of Distinction 1987
- Guggenheim, 1995–1996
- Huxley Memorial Medalist and Lecturer for 1999, by the Royal Anthropological Institute in London. She was only the second woman so honored. [1]
- Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize, 2005 [2]
- Elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005[3]
Notable students
- London School of Economics and Political Sciencefrom September 2012 on.
References
- ISBN 9780837904221. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ "Archived copy". www.law.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 10 September 2006. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
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