l'Afrique

Allemagne

Research Assistant

Universität Mainz, Germany

sophiaswelt@aol.com ; thubauv@uni-mainz.de

Special Research Project 295
Friedrich-Gresemundweg 4
D-55099
Mainz
Germany

http://www.southethiopiaresearch.org/ ; http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/mitarbeiter/Thubauville.html

Ethiopia

Research interests: gender-crossings, gender, life histories, cultural change, material culture

Research area: south Ethiopia, especially Maale, Ongota and Aari

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)

gender-crossings ; gender ; life histories ; cultural change ; material culture ; south Ethiopia.