Space, Text, and Gender: An Anthropological Study of the Marakwet of Kenya

by Henrietta L. Moore

This groundbreaking anthropological study strikingly illustrates how we can use different interpretations of place to learn more about a society, and demonstrates the value of a feminist approach to the analysis of changing systems of representation. Henrietta Moore focuses on the relationship between the organization of household space and gender relations, showing how that relation shifts due to changing social and economic conditions, including such factors as wage labor and education. This updated edition contains a new foreword and afterword in which Moore relates her work to more recent developments around gender, resistance, difference, and spatiality.

234 pages, Paperback

First published December 19, 1985

About the author

Henrietta L. Moore is a British social anthropologist. She is the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Culture and Communications Programme at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics (LSE). Previously Moore was a Governor of the LSE; LSE Deputy Director for research and external relations 2002-2005, and served as the Director of the Gender Institute at the LSE from 1994-1999.

Reviews

[Ainslee · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the most amazing book I have read for Anthropology. Moore explains the life of the Marakwet in a such a way that demonstrates the complexities of the lives of the men and women of the Marakwet, but in a way that is accessible to the reader. If you liked Veiled Sentiments and the works of E.E. Evans-Pritchard, you will love this book.