Professor Eric Hirsch
Divisional Lead / Deputy Head of Department / Professor - Anthropology
Marie Jahoda 226
- Email: eric.hirsch@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265953
- Anthropology
- Social Science and Communications
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Hirsch, E. (2024) 'Critique, vision and cosmology: millenarian ideas in Papua New Guinea'. Oceania, 0 (accepted, in press). ISSN: 0029-8077 Open Access Link
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.
Rollason, W. and Hirsch, E. (2023) 'Compliance: Cultures and networks of accommodation'. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books. ISSN 10: 1-80539-410-X ISSN 13: 978-1-80539-225-5
Hirsch, E. and Rollason, W. (2023) 'Conclusion: Striving for accommodation 'In the Middle of Things'', in Hirsch, E. and Rollason, W. (eds.) Compliance: Cultures and Networks of Accommodation. New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books. pp. 208 - 213. ISBN 10: 1-80539-226-3.
Hirsch, E. (2023) 'Domestication and personhood', in Hartmann, M. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Media and Technology Domestication. London : Taylor & Francis. pp. 15 - 28. ISBN 10: 1000888851. ISBN 13: 9781000888850.
Hirsch, E. (2022) ''Environment and economy: great divide to great acceleration'', in Carrier, J. (ed.) Handbook of Economic Anthropology, Third Edition. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar. pp. 191 - 203.
Hirsch, E. (2022) 'Divine powers and exchange with ‘others’ in Melanesia'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28 (1). pp. 204 - 221. ISSN: 1359-0987 Open Access Link
Hirsch, E. (2022) 'Introduction: Working Through Other People’s Descriptions', inPROPERTY, SUBSTANCE AND EFFECT: ANTHROPOLOGICAL ESSAYS ON PERSONS AND THINGS. Chicago : HAU Books. pp. ix - xxxiii. ISBN 13: 978-0-999-1570-7-7.
Hirsch, E. and Rollason, W. (2021) 'Compliance: cultures and networks of submission'. Berghahn.
Hirsch, E. (2021) 'History'. Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. ISSN: 2398-516X Open Access Link
Rollason, W. and Hirsch, E. (2021) 'Compliance: Politics, Sociability and the Constitution of Collective Life'. Journal of Legal Anthropology, 5 (1). pp. 1 - 31. ISSN: 1758-9576 Open Access Link
HIRSCH, E. (2021) 'Ancestral Presence Cosmology and Historical Experience in the Papuan Highlands'. Routledge. ISSN 10: 0367357933 ISSN 13: 9780367357931
Hirsch, E. and Rollason, W. (2019) 'The melanesian world'. London: Routledge. ISSN 10: 1138693715 ISSN 13: 9781138693715
Hirsch, E. and Rollason, W. (2019) 'Introduction: The challenge of Melanesia'.
Hirsch, EL. (2018) 'Beauty and captivation: Fuyuge gab and Gell’s anthropological theory of art', in Bunn, S. (ed.) Anthropology and Beauty From Aesthetics to Creativity. Abingdon : Routledge. pp. 82 - 97. ISBN 10: 1317400542. ISBN 13: 9781138928794.
Hirsch, E. (2018) 'Sense of place', inThe International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Wiley. ISBN 13: 9781118924396.
Hirsch, E. (2014) 'Foucault among the Melanesianists'. Oceania, 84 (1). pp. 69 - 79. ISSN: 0029-8077
Hirsch, E. (2014) 'Melanesian Ethnography and the Comparative Project of Anthropology: Reflection on Strathern's Analogical Approach'. Theory, Culture & Society, 31 (3). pp. 39 - 64. ISSN: 0263-2764
Hirsch, E. (2013) 'Art, performance and time's presence: Reflections on temporality in art and agency', inDistributed Objects: Meaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell. pp. 176 - 200.
Hirsch, EL. and Moretti, D. (2011) 'One past and many pasts: Varieties of historical holism in Melanesia and the West', in Otto, T. and Bubandt, N. (eds.) Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology. Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 279 - 298. ISBN 10: 1444351850. ISBN 13: 9781444351859.
Hirsch, EL. (2010) 'Property and persons: new forms and contests in the era of neoliberalism'. Annual Reviews in Anthropology, 39 (1). pp. 347 - 360. ISSN: 0084-6570
Hirsch, EL. (2008) 'Disrupting the view, revealing the landscape', in Elwes, C. and Ball, S. (eds.) Figuring Landscapes: Artists' Moving Image from Australia and the UK. Afterall Publishing. ISBN 10: 1846380472. ISBN 13: 9781846380471.
Halstead, N., Hirsch, E. and Oxely, J. (2008) 'Knowing how to know: Fieldwork and the ethnographic present'. Oxford: Berghahn Books. ISSN 10: 1845454383 ISSN 13: 978-1845454388
Hirsch, EL. (2008) 'Knowing, not knowing, knowing anew', in Halstead, N., Hirsch, E. and Okely, J. (eds.) Knowing how to know: Fieldwork and the ethnographic present. Oxford : Berghahn Books. pp. 21 - 37. ISBN 10: 1845454774. ISBN 13: 9781845454777.
Hirsch, E. (2008) 'God or tidibe? Melanesian Christianity and the problem of wholes'. Ethnos, 73 (2). pp. 141 - 162. ISSN: 0014-1844
Hirsch, EL. (2008) 'Paradoxes of the cosmopolitan in Melaneisa', in Werbner, P. (ed.) Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism. Berg Publishers. pp. 197 - 214. ISBN 10: 184788198X. ISBN 13: 9781847881984.
Hirsch, EL. (2008) 'Good ways and bad ways: transformations of law and mining in Papua New Guinea', in Jiménez, AC. (ed.) Culture and well-being. Pluto Press. ISBN 10: 0745326803. ISBN 13: 9780745326801.
Hirsch, E. (2007) 'Looking like a culture'. Anthropological Forum, 17 (3). pp. 225 - 238. ISSN: 0066-4677
Hirsch, EL. (2007) 'Betelnut 'bisnis' and cosmology: A view from Papua New Guinea', in Goodman, J., Sherratt, A. and Lovejoy, PE. (eds.) Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology. London : Psychology Press. pp. 86 - 97. ISBN 10: 0415425816. ISBN 13: 9780415425810.
Hirsch, E. (2007) 'Epochs of scale-making in Papua', in Lien, M. and Melhuus, M. (eds.) Holding worlds together: Ethnographies of knowing and belonging. Oxford : Berghahn Books. ISBN 13: 978-1-84545-250-6.
Hirsch, E., Kapferer, B., Martin, E., Tsing, A. and Nils. (2007) ''Anthropologists Are Talking' about anthropology after globalisation'. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, 72 (1). pp. 102 - 126. ISSN: 0014-1844
Hirsch, E. (2007) 'Valleys of historicity and ways of power among the fuyuge'. Oceania, 77 (2). pp. 158 - 171. ISSN: 0029-8077
Hirsch, EL. (2006) 'Landscape, myth and tim'. Journal of Material Culture, 11 (1-2). pp. 151 - 165. ISSN: 1359-1835
Hirsch, EL. (2006) 'Afterword: Embodied historicities', in Bamford, S. (ed.) Embodying modernity and postmodernity: Ritual, praxis and social change in Melanesia. Durham : NC: Carolina Academic Press.
Hirsch, E. (2005) 'Negotiated limits: interviews in south-east Enland', inTechnologies of Procreation Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception. Routledge. pp. 91 - 121. ISBN 10: 1134698070. ISBN 13: 9781134698073.
Hirsch, E. and Macdonald, S. (2005) 'Creativity or temporality? - Introduction', in Hirsch, E. and Macdonald, S. (eds.) Creativity or temporality? (special issue of Cambridge Anthropology). Cambridge : Cambridge Department of Social Anthropology. pp. 1 - 4.
Hirsch, E. and Macdonald, S. (2005) 'Creativity or temporality? (special issue of Cambridge Anthropology)'. Cambridge: Cambridge Department of Social Anthropology.
Hirsch, E. and Stewart, C. (2005) 'Introduction: Ethnographies of historicity'. History and Anthropology, 16 (3). pp. 261 - 274. ISSN: 0275-7206
Edwards, J., Franklin, S., Hirsch, E., Price, F. and Strathern, M. (2005) 'Technologies of procreation: Kinship in the Age of assisted conception, second edition'. Routledge.
Hirsch, EL. (2004) 'Environment and economy: Mutual connections and diverse perspectives'. Anthropological Theory, 4 (4). pp. 435 - 453. ISSN: 1463-4996
Hirsch, E. (2004) 'Techniques of vision: Photography, disco and renderings of present perceptions in highland Papua'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 10 (3). pp. 19 - 39. ISSN: 1359-0987
Hirsch, EL. and Strathern, M. (2004) 'Transactions and creations: property debates and the stimulus of Melanesia'. New York: Berghahn Books. ISSN 10: 1-57181-615-1
Hirsch, E. (2003) 'A landscape of powers in highland Papua, C. 1899-1918'. History and Anthropology, 14 (1). pp. 3 - 22. ISSN: 0275-7206
Hirsch, E. (2002) 'Making up people in Papua - Reply to Stewart and Strathern'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 8 (2). pp. 369 - 371. ISSN: 1359-0987
Hirsch, EL. (2001) 'Making up people in Papua'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 7 (2). pp. 241 - 256. ISSN: 1359-0987
Hirsch, EL. (2001) 'When was modernity in Melanesia?'. Social Anthropology, 9 (2). pp. 131 - 146. ISSN: 0964-0282
Hirsch, E. (2001) 'New boundaries of influence in highland Papua: 'Culture', mining and ritual conversions'. Oceania, 71 (4). pp. 298 - 312. ISSN: 0029-8077
Gellner, DN. and Hirsch, E. (2001) 'Inside Organizations: Anthropologists at Work'. Berg Publishers. ISSN 10: 1859734871 ISSN 13: 9781859734872
Hirsch, EL. (2001) 'Mining boundaries and local land narrative (tidibe) in the Udabe Valley, Central Province', in Kalinoe, LK. and Leach, J. (eds.) Rationales of Ownership: Ethnographic Studies of Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea. New Delhi : UBS Publishers' Distributors. ISBN 10: 8174763341. ISBN 13: 9788174763341.
Schlecker, M. and Hirsch, E. (2001) 'Incomplete knowledge: Ethnography and the crisis of context in studies of media, science and technology'. History of the Human Sciences, 14 (1). pp. 69 - 87. ISSN: 0952-6951