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Professor Eric Hirsch
Honorary Emeritus Professor - Social and Political Science

Marie Jahoda 226

Summary

I initially trained as an engineer but later found that anthropology was what really interested me. I subsequently completed a PhD at the LSE based on fieldwork in Papua New Guinea.My intial research in the Papuan highlands was among the Fuyuge people and examined their ideas of landscape, myth, power and ritual and their mutual connections. I supplemented this work with historical research on colonial government and mission influences on the Fuyuge. Later research focused on the influences of a local mine and the effects of this on Fuyuge ideas of land ownership and cultural property.

Qualifications:

  • PhD Anthropology (LSE)
  • MSc Anthropology (LSE)
  • BSc Civil Engineering (Missouri)

Newest selected publications

Hirsch, E. (2025) 'Perceiving the Environment in the Papuan Highlands: Reflections on the Ideas of Direct Perception and Attunement'. Ethnos, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 0014-1844 Open Access Link

Journal article

Hirsch, E. and Rollason, W. (2025) 'Description, difference and history in Melanesia, for example'. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 36 (1). pp. 123 - 140. ISSN: 1035-8811 Open Access Link

Journal article

Hirsch, E. (2024) 'Critique, Vision and Cosmology: Millenarian Ideas in Melanesia'. Oceania, 94 (3). pp. 184 - 201. ISSN: 0029-8077 Open Access Link

Journal article

Rollason, W. and Hirsch, E. (2023) 'Introduction: Compliance: Politics, sociability and the constitution of collective life', in Rollason, W. and Hirsch, E. (eds.) Compliance. New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books. pp. 1 - 31. ISBN 10: 1-80539-410-X. ISBN 13: 978-1-80539-225-5.

Book chapter

Rollason, W. and Hirsch, E. (2023) 'Compliance: Cultures and networks of accommodation'. Berghahn Books. ISSN 10: 1-80539-410-X ISSN 13: 978-1-80539-225-5

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