Andre Gingrich

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Andre Gingrich (born September 12, 1952 in Vienna ) is an Austrian -American ethnologist and anthropologist .

Life

Andre Gingrich was full professor at the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna from 1998 to 2017 . From 2007 to 2019 he was founding director of the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). He is a founding member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).

His main research interests include identity concepts , gender studies , ethnicity .

Publications

  • with Ulf Hannerz (Ed.): Small Countries: Structures and Sensibilities . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
  • with Thomas Fillitz & Lutz Musner: Cultures and Wars: Transnational Perspectives in Anthropology . Freiburg i. Br .: Rombach, 2007.
  • with Fredrik Barth, Robert Parkin & Sydel Silverman: One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology . The Halle Lectures. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
  • with Gerd Baumann (Ed.): Grammars of Identity / Alterity: A Structural Approach . London: Berghahn, 2004.
  • Explorations. Topics of ethnological research . Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau, 1999.
  • Southwest Arabian star calendars. An ethnological study on the structure, context and regional comparison of the tribal agricultural calendar of the Munebbih in Yemen . Vienna Contributions to Ethnology and Anthropology Vol. 7, Vienna: WUV, 1994.

Awards

Memberships

  • Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2007.
  • Real member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
  • Fellow, The World Academy for the Advancement of Sciences (TWAS)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Proof of head of the Institute for Social Anthropology on oeaw.ac.at
  2. Detail page about Andre Gingrich, Austrian Academy of Sciences ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oeaw.ac.at