Sophia Thubauville (Universität Mainz, Germany)

Submitted:  Fri, 27 June 2008


Sophia Thubauville, MA
Research Assistant
Special Research Project 295
Friedrich-Gresemundweg 4
D-55099
Mainz
Germany

e-mail:  sophiaswelt@aol.com
         thubauv@uni-mainz.de

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


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)