Christina Gabbert

Dr.

Research Interests

Conflict and Gender
Conflict, Conflict Resolution
Cultural Identity
Cultural Neighbourhood
Development Cooperation
Global Markets and Changing Land Use
Global Neighbourhood
Innovation and Cultural Change
Investment
Lands of the Future Research Network (LOF)
Music
Oral History
Pastoralism
Peace Studies
Soundscape
Visual Anthropology

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Education

2012
PhD (Anthropology) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology and Martin-Luther-University Halle/Wittenberg, Germany
Dissertation title: Deciding Peace. Knowledge about War and Peace among the Arbore of Southern Ethiopia.

1998/1999
M.A. (Anthropology, Sociology, Film Science) at the Free University Berlin, Germany
M.A. thesis in Anthropology: Zwischen Pragmatik und Zeichensetzung. Zur materiellen Kultur der Arbore von Gondoroba.

1991-1996
Studies in Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, Sociology and Film Science at the Free University Berlin, Germany, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Marseille, France, New York University and Tisch School of the Arts, USA

1988-1991
Biology Studies at the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

Academic Affiliation

Since 2016
Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany

2012-2016 (with interruptions, maternal leave)
Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology Halle/Saale, Germany

2015 (May-July)
Hiob Ludolf Professor at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, Hamburg University, Germany

2014 (June)
Visiting Fellow at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced Studies, Germany

Since 2013
Coordination of the Lands of the Future Research Network (LOF). An open platform to discuss changing land use on agro-pastoralist territories in Eastern Africa, based at the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology Halle/Saale, Germany

2006 until 2012 (with interruption, maternal leave)
PhD Candidate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology Halle/Saale, Germany

2000 until 2006 (with interruption, maternal leave)
Research Assistant at the SFB 295 “Kulturelle und Sprachliche Kontakte” of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Project C7 “Cultural Contact and Cultural Self Esteem” with Professor Ivo Strecker and Professor Thomas Bierschenk, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

Since 2000
Researcher of the South Omo Research Center SORC in Jinka, Ethiopia

Publications

2017
“Journey in translation or: translating silences. Reflections on the documentation and interpretation of oral traditions.” In Bustorf, Dirk, Alexander Meckelburg und Sophia Dege-Müller (eds.), Oral tradition in Ethiopian Studies. Supplement to AETHIOPICA – International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

2016
“Cultural neighbourhood in Ethiopia and the world?” (with Sophia Thubauville) In Eloi Ficquet, Ahmed Hassen and Thomas Osmond (eds.), Movements in Ethiopia, Ethiopia in Movement: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. Addis Ababa: Los Angeles: Tsehai Publishers: 41-49.

2015
“Dynamics of Identification: Research on Northeast Africa at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale.” (with Günther Schlee) In Wolbert G.C. Smidt and Sophia Thubauville (eds.), Cultural Research in Northeastern Africa. German Histories and Stories. ITYOPIS. Northeast African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Extra Issue Vol. 1: 229-237.

2014
“Songs of Self and Others: Music as Identification among the Arbore of Southern Ethiopia.” In Felix Girke (ed.), Ethiopian Images of Self and Other. Schriften des Zentrums für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien 2. Halle/Saale: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg: 105-120.

“Powerful Mothers -Radical Daughters. Fables about and Cases of Women’s Agency among the Arbore of Southern Ethiopia.” Paideuma 60: 187-204.

“Women’s Perspectives on Patrilineality. Case Studies from Southern Ethiopia.” (with Sophia Thubauville) Paideuma 60: 139-154.

Lands of the Future. Transforming Pastoral Lands and Livelihoods in Eastern Africa (with Jon Abbink, Kelly Askew, Dereje Feyissa Dori, Elliot Fratkin, John Galaty, Shauna LaTosky, Jean Lydall, Hussein A. Mahmoud, John Markakis , Günther Schlee, Ivo Strecker, David Turton) Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 155. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

“The Global Neighbourhood Concept. A Chance for Cooperative Development Or Festina Lente.” In Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe (ed.), A Delicate Balance. Land Use, Minority Rights and Social Stability in the Horn of Africa. Addis Ababa: Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University: 14-37.

2013
“To Work with Ginno – Reflections on Fieldwork in Arbore.” In Ivo Strecker and Shauna LaTosky (eds), Writing in the Field. Festschrift for Stephen Tyler. Berlin, Wien: LIT Verlag: 107-115.

2010
“Songs.” (with Hugo Ferran, Arnaud Kruczynski, Claire Locombe, Katell Morand, Leila Quashu, Ilaria Sartori, Olivier Tourny) In Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica Vol. 4 O-X, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz: 710-714.

To Live with Others. Essays on Cultural Neigbhorhood in Southern Ethiopia. (with Sophia Thubauville) Cologne: Köppe.

“Introduction.” In Echi Christina Gabbert and Sophia Thubauville (eds), To Live with Others. Essays on Cultural Neigbhorhood in Southern Ethiopia. Cologne: Köppe, 13-28.

“Mountains for Each Other. Insights into Arbore-Wata Wando Relationships.” In Echi Christina Gabbert and Sophia Thubauville (eds), To Live with Others. Essays on Cultural Neigbhorhood in Southern Ethiopia. Cologne: Köppe: 157-185.

2008
“Narrated Identities or The Said and the Sung- Praise and condemnation of self and others in Arbore song poetics.” In Francois-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar (ed.): Annales d’Éthiopie. Vol. XXIII (2007-2008). Paris, de Boccard: 259-280.

2007
“Gordjante Arbore.” (with Ginno Ballo) In Ivo Strecker and Marcus Verne (eds), Astonishment and Evocation. Festschrift for Stephen Tyler’s 75th Birthday, Vol. 2 (preprint): 10-14.

2006
“Von der Schönheit der einfachen Kalebasse. Bemerkungen zu einer Sammlung äthiopischer Ethnografica aus Arbore.” In Kerstin-Volker Saad & Anna Greve (eds.): Äthiopien und Deutschland, Sehnsucht nach der Ferne. Leipzig, Deutscher Kunstverlag: 228-243.

“Arbore Soundscape – Remapping Arbore through Music.” In Siegbert Uhlig (ed.), Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies: Hamburg July 20 – 25, 2003. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz: 428-434.

“Metamorphosis of a Karmet song in Arbore.” In Ivo Strecker (ed.): The perils of face: essays on cultural contact, respect and self-esteem in southern Ethiopia. Münster, Hamburg, London: Lit (Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrika Forschung Bd. 10): 269-287.

2005
Final Report of the Arbore Food Aid Project (with Felix Girke)

2003
“Arbore Soundscape or Stumbling into a New Chapter.” In Eva-Maria Bruchhaus (ed.), Hot Spot Horn of Africa: between Integration and Disintegration. Münster: Lit: 118-122.

Report on Hunger in Arbore. (with Felix Girke)

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