Sophia Thubauville

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	Germany
Title	Research Assistant
Affiliation	Universität Mainz, Germany
Email	sophiaswelt@aol.com ; thubauv@uni-mainz.de
Mailing Address	Special Research Project 295 Friedrich-Gresemundweg 4 D-55099 Mainz Germany
Websites	http://www.southethiopiaresearch.org/ ; http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/mitarbeiter/Thubauville.html
Countries of Specialization	Ethiopia
Research Interests	Research interests: gender-crossings, gender, life histories, cultural change, material culture Research area: south Ethiopia, especially Maale, Ongota and Aari
Publications	2005. Maale material objects in their social and ritual context. Arbeitspapiere des Instituts für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. No. 61 (http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/workingpapers/AP56.pdf) 2008. With Christina Gabbert, To live together. Essays on cultural neighbourhood in Southern Ethiopia. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (forthcoming). 2008. "Amity through intermarriage. Some outcomes of a workshop on intermarriage between the Maale, Ari and Banna people of southern Ethiopia." In Gabbert, Christina & Thubauville, Sophia (Eds.), To live together. Essays on cultural neighbourhood in Southern Ethiopia. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (forthcoming). 2008. With Graziano Sav, "The Ongota: A branch of the Maale? Ethnographic, historic and linguistic traces of contact of the Ongota people." In Gabbert, Christina & Thubauville, Sophia (Eds.), To live together. Essays on cultural neighbourhood in Southern Ethiopia. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (forthcoming). 2009. "Getting used to the anthropologist." In Strecker, Ivo & Verne, Marcus (Eds.), Astonishment and evocation. Festschrift for Stephen Tyler, Vol. 2. New York: Berghahn Books. (forthcoming)
Keywords	gender-crossings ; gender ; life histories ; cultural change ; material culture ; south Ethiopia.