"Ancestral Presence is a rich, insightful, and enjoyable ethnography, and Hirsch makes important contributions to the field. By showing how continuity and change are not necessarily mutually exclusive, Hirsch meaningfully intervenes in key ongoing debates within the anthropology of Melanesia. [...] This book merits a wide audience." - Dario Di Rosa in Pacific Affairs
"I found Ancestral Presence to be an engaging account of a Melanesian lifeworld that successfully draws on key studies in Melanesian anthropology to outline a nuanced approach to the question of cultural continuity and change that is grounded in important insights derived from the Fuyuge's perspective." - Christiane Falck in Oceania
"I found Ancestral Presence to be an engaging account of a Melanesian lifeworld that successfully draws on key studies in Melanesian anthropology to outline a nuanced approach to the question of cultural continuity and change that is grounded in important insights derived from the Fuyuge's perspective." - Christiane Falck in Oceania
"Ancestral Presence is a rich, insightful, and enjoyable ethnography, and Hirsch makes important contributions to the field. By showing how continuity and change are not necessarily mutually exclusive, Hirsch meaningfully intervenes in key ongoing debates within the anthropology of Melanesia. [...] This book merits a wide audience." - Dario Di Rosa in Pacific Affairs
"I found Ancestral Presence to be an engaging account of a Melanesian lifeworld that successfully draws on key studies in Melanesian anthropology to outline a nuanced approach to the question of cultural continuity and change that is grounded in important insights derived from the Fuyuge's perspective." - Christiane Falck in Oceania
"I found Ancestral Presence to be an engaging account of a Melanesian lifeworld that successfully draws on key studies in Melanesian anthropology to outline a nuanced approach to the question of cultural continuity and change that is grounded in important insights derived from the Fuyuge's perspective." - Christiane Falck in Oceania