Recent Publications | Monographs & Edited Volumes | Contributions in Journals & Edited Volumes Publications of Dr. Echi Christina Gabbert
Recent Publications
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict: Anthropological Encounters. NY: Berghahn.
Lands of the Future: Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity. Eastern Africa. New York and Oxford: Berghahn.
Futuremaking with Pastoralists. In: Echi Christina Gabbert, Fana Gebresenbet, John Galaty and Günther Schlee (eds.), Lands of the Future: Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 1–38.
Conclusion: Pastoralists for Future. In: Echi Christina Gabbert, Fana Gebresenbet, John Galaty and Günther Schlee (eds.), Lands of the Future: Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 309–17.
Monographs & Edited Volumes
Deciding Peace: Knowledge about War and Peace among the Arbore of Southern Ethiopia. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.
To Live with Others. Essays on Cultural Neigbhourhood in Southern Ethiopia. Cologne: Köppe.
Contributions in Journals & Edited Volumes
Timothy Clack and Marcus Brittain: The River. Peoples and Histories of the Omo-Turkana Area. Nomadic Peoples 24(1): 167–170.
Future in Culture: Globalizing Environments in the Lowlands of Southern Ethiopia. In: Jon Abbink (ed.), The Environmental Crunch in Africa. Growth Narrative vs. Local Realities. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, S. 287-317.
Journey in Translation or Translating Silences: Reflections on the Translation and Interpretation of Oral Sources. In: Alexander Meckelburg, Sophia Dege-Müller and Dirk Bustorf (eds.), Oral Traditions in Ethiopian Studies. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 243–266.
Vignette on Panthera Pardus - A Fable from Arbore. In: Felix Girke, Sophia Thubauville and Wolbert Smidt (eds.), Anthropology as Homage: Festschrift for Ivo Strecker. Cologne: Köppe, pp. 351–355.
Tourismus in Äthiopien. In: Siegbert Uhlig, David L. Appleyard, Alessandro Bausi, Wolfgang Hahn and Steven Kaplan (eds.), Äthiopien. Geschichte, Kultur, Herausforderungen. Wiesbaden Harrasowitz, pp. 338–348.
Tourism in Ethiopia. In: Siegbert Uhlig, David L. Appleyard, Alessandro Bausi, Wolfgang Hahn and Steven Kaplan (eds.), Ethiopia: History, Culture and Challenges. Münster: Lit Verlag, pp. 311–315.
Conflicts, Security and Marginalisation: Institutional Change of the Pastoral Commons in a Glocal World. Revue Scientifique et Technique (International Office of Epizootics) 35(2): 405–416.
Cultural Neighbourhood in Ethiopia – and the World? In: Eloi Ficquet, Ahmed Hassen and Thomas Osmond (eds.), Movements in Ethiopia, Ethiopia in Movement: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (Vol: II). Addis Ababa, Los Angeles: Tsehai Publishers, pp. 41–49.
Dynamics of Identification: Research on Northeast Africa at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale. 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.
Lands of the Future. Transforming Pastoral Lands and Livelihoods in Eastern Africa. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 155. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
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, pp. 105–120.
Powerful Mothers - Radical Daughters. Fables about and Cases of Women’s Agency among the Arbore of Southern Ethiopia. Paideuma 60: 187–204.
Gender and Identification in Patrilineal and Patriarchal Societies. Case Studies from Southern Ethiopia. Paideuma 60: 139–154.
The Global Neighbourhood Concept. A Chance for Cooperative Development or Festina Lente. In: Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe (eds.), 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, pp. 14–37.
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, pp. 107–115.
Introduction. In: Echi Christina Gabbert and Sophia Thubauville (eds.), To Live with Others. Essays on Cultural Neigbhorhood in Southern Ethiopia. Cologne: Köppe, pp. 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, pp. 157–185.
Songs. In: Siegbert Uhlig (eds.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Vol. 4 O-X, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 710–714.
Narrated Identities or the Said and the Sung - Praise and Condemnation of Self and Others in Arbore Song Poetics. In: Francois-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar: Annales Déthiopie. Vol. Xxiii (2007–2008). Paris, De Boccard, 259–280.
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), pp. 10–14.
Von der Schönheit der Einfachen Kalebasse. Bemerkungen zu einer Sammlung Äthiopischer Ethnografica aus Arbore. In: Kerstin-Volker Saad and Anna Greve (eds.), Äthiopien und Deutschland, Sehnsucht nach der Ferne. Leipzig, Deutscher Kunstverlag, pp. 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, pp. 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), pp. 269–287.
Arbore Soundscape or Stumbling into a New Chapter. In: Eva-Maria Bruchhaus (ed.), Hot Spot Horn of Africa: Between Integration and Disintegration. Münster: Lit, pp. 118–122.