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
Research area(s)
- History, historicity and landscape
- Myth, personhood and ritual
- Power and property relations
- Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
Research Interests
Through my long-standing interest in the ethnography and history of Papua New Guinea and Melanesia I have focused on issues of historicity, landscape, power, and property relations. Of particular interest has been the relations between cosmology (myth and ritual) and that of historical experience where conventional ideas of history do not apply. Recent work has explored how a history that has more than one history in it can be told while also telling the story of the relation between worlds.
Research grants and projects
Project details
Completed:
RAI-Leach Post-doctoral Fellowship Programme X 3, 2011-2016.
Property, transactions and creations: new economic relations in the Pacific. ESRC, 1999-2002 (Co-Investigator)