1 | Name: | Dr. Sally Falk Moore | |
Institution: | Peabody Museum, Harvard University | ||
Year Elected: | 2005 | ||
Class: | 4. Humanities | ||
Subdivision: | 403. Cultural Anthropology | ||
Residency: | Resident | ||
Living? : | Deceased | ||
Birth Date: | 1924 | ||
Death Date: | May 2, 2021 | ||
Sally Falk Moore was Professor of Anthropology (emerita) at Harvard University, where she served as Dean of the Graduate School from 1985-89. Intermittently, she also has taught "Anthropological Approaches to Law" at Harvard Law School. She has an L.L.B. from Columbia Law School (1945). Her major anthropological fieldwork has been in East Africa. Her books include Power and Property in Inca Peru (1958), Law as Process (1978), Social Facts and Fabrications: "Customary" Law on Kilimanjaro 1880-1980 (1986), Anthropology and Africa (1994), and most recently a reader, Law and Anthropology (2005). She is a past president of the American Ethnological Society and the Society for Political and Legal Anthropology. She was elected Huxley Medalist and Lecturer for 1999 by the Royal Anthropological Institute and has been awarded the Kalven Prize by the Law and Society Association (2005). She died on May 2, 2021. |