Andre Gingrich (born 12 September 1952) is an Austrian

ethnologist Ethnology (from the grc-gre, ἔθνος, meaning 'nation') is an academic field that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology) ...

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, member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, director of the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and retired professor at the

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Biography

Andre Gingrich since 1998 to 2017 has been a full professor at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the

. Since 2003, he is director of the Institute of Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). He obtained both his doctoral degree (1979) in social anthropology (together with studies in sociology, Arabic, and Middle Eastern history) and his habilitation (1990) at Vienna University. His research interests include anthropology and history of south-western Arabia (

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...

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Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

), theories and methods in anthropology, the

history of anthropology History of anthropology in this article refers primarily to the 18th- and 19th-century precursors of modern anthropology. The term anthropology itself, innovated as a New Latin scientific word during the Renaissance, has always meant "the study ...

personal identity Personal identity is the unique numerical identity of a person over time. Discussions regarding personal identity typically aim to determine the necessary and sufficient conditions under which a person at one time and a person at another time can ...

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field ...

ethnicity theory An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...

paradox A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictory or a logically u ...

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nationalism Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the State (polity), state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a in-group and out-group, group of peo ...

, practice and experience of

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and intercultural and comparative analyzes of

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sources in ethnological and historical interpretation. He was the head of the research project ''Wittgenstein 2000 – Local Identities and Local Impacts'' (''Wittgenstein 2000 – lokale Identitäten und überlokale Einflüsse''). He is a foreign member of the

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(since 2007), full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and member of the Board of the Austrian Orient Society Hammer-Purgstall. He is editorial board member for peer-reviewed journals: ''Ethnos'' (Sweden) and ''Focaal'' (Netherlands); an advisory board member at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/G) and for the Frobenius Institute at the JW Goethe University Frankfurt. Gingrich holds US and Austrian dual citizenship. He is married and has two children.

Works (selection)

* ''Südwestarabische Sternenkalender. Eine ethnologische Studie zu Struktur, Kontext und regionalem Vergleich des tribalen Agrarkalenders der Munebbih im Jemen''. Wiener Beiträge zur Ethnologie und Anthropologie Bd. 7, Wien: WUV, 1994. * ''Erkundungen. Themen der ethnologischen Forschung''. Wien-Köln-Weimar: Böhlau, 1999. * ''Grammars of Identity/Alterity: A Structural Approach'' (edited by, with Gerd Baumann). London: Berghahn, 2004. * ''One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology'' (with Fredrik Barth, Robert Parkin & Sydel Silverman). The Halle Lectures. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. * ''Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond. Perspectives from Social Anthropology'' (edited by, with Marcus Banks). Berghahn Books, 2006. * ''Kulturen und Kriege: Transnationale Perspektiven der Anthropologie'' (with Thomas Fillitz & Lutz Musner). Freiburg i. Br.: Rombach, 2007. Source.

Awards

Wittgenstein Award The Wittgenstein Award (german: Wittgenstein-Preis) is an Austrian science award supporting the notion that "scientists should be guaranteed the greatest possible freedom and flexibility in the performance of their research." The prize money of up ...

, 2000 *

Preis der Stadt Wien für Geisteswissenschaften Preis der Stadt Wien für Geisteswissenschaften or Prize of the City of Vienna for the Humanities is a prize awarded by the city of Vienna, Austria, awarded annually since 1947 for outstanding contributions in the humanities. It is worth 10,000 Eu ...

, 2015 Source.

References

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