Hector Qirko
Professor of Anthropology
E-mail: qirkoh@cofc.edu
Personal Website: http://qirkoh.people.cofc.edu/
Education
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Tennessee
Dissertation: "Induced Altruism in the Maintenance of Institutionalized Celibacy"
M.A., Anthropology, University of Tennessee
B.A. with highest honors, Anthropology, University of Tennessee
Research Interests
- Applied anthropology
- Organizational and institutional cultures
- Evolutionary theory and cultural patterning
- Popular culture and identity
Courses Taught
- ANTH 101: Introduction to Anthropology
- ANTH 201: Cultural Anthropology
- ANTH 210: Development of Anthropological Thought
- ANTH 319: Special Topic: Anthropology and Business
- ANTH 319: Special Topic: Popular Culture and Identity
- ANTH 325: Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
- ANTH 342: Human Behavior and Evolution
- ANTH 345: Applied Anthropology
- ANTH 362: Social and Cultural Change
- ANTH 491: Research Methods
- FYSM 103: Identity and Popular Culture
Publications
2021 Qirko, H. N. “The role of culture in evolutionary theories of human cooperation.” Analyse & Kritik 43(1):169-190. https://doi.org/10.1515/auk-2021-0009
2021 Qirko, H. N. “What is a ‘critter’? Potential problems with the scientific community’s use of informal language to describe non-human species.” Language & Ecology. http://ecolinguistics-association.org/journal.
2020 Qirko, H. N. “Altruistic punishment in modern intentional communities.” Interaction Studies 21(3):412-427. https://doi.org/10.1075/is.19011.qir
2020 Morris, D.S & Qirko, H.N. “Saving ‘Little Sister’: A Test of the Effectiveness of Kinship Appeals in Conservation Marketing. Environmental Communication 14(4):481-491. DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2019.1687102
2019 Qirko, H.N. “‘Dumb’ Performance as a Marker of Authenticity.” Popular Music and Society 42(4):470-482. DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2018.1482703
2017 Qirko, H.N. "Kinship Appeals and Conservation Social Marketing." Biodiversity and Conservation 26(5):1009-1026. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-017-1297-9
2016 Qirko, H.N. "An Evolutionary Argument for Unconscious Personal Death Unawareness.” Mortality 22(3):255-269. DOI: 10.1080/13576275.2016.1176018
2014 Qirko, H.N. "Organizational Structures and Practices are a Better Predictor of Suicide Terror Threats than Individual Psychological Dispositions.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37:374-375. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X13003464
2014 Qirko, H.N. “Current Trends in Cultural Particularism: The Problem Does Seem to Lie with Anthropology.” Topics in Cognitive Science 6:155-156. DOI: 10.1111/tops.12054
2014 Qirko, H.N. "Consumer Authentication of Popular Music in the Global Postmodern.” Popular Music and Society 37(3):291-312. DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2013.798552
2013 Qirko, H.N. “Induced Altruism in Religious, Military, and Terrorist Organizations.” Cross-Cultural Research 47(2):131-161. DOI: 10.1177/1069397112471804
2011 Qirko, H.N. “Fictive Kinship and Induced Altruism.” In The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Family Psychology, C. Salmon and T. Shackelford (Eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 310-328.
Earlier publications at https://qirkoh.people.cofc.edu/