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Fabienne Braukmann

CV/Education
2012 – 2017Research Fellow at the Asia-Africa-Institute, Department for African and Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg University, Germany; DOBES-Project “Documentation of Bayso (Cushitic) and Haro (Omotic): two Afroasiatic endangered languages of the Abbaya Lake in the Ethiopian Rift Valley”, funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung
2012 -2016Associate Researcher at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
since 2014Doctoral Student in Social Anthropology, University of Cologne, Germany
2011Graduate Assistant at the Collaborative Research Centre 806 “Our Way to Europe”, University of Cologne, Germany
2005 - 2011Magistra Artium in Social Anthropology, University of Cologne, Germany
Current Project
Fieldwork
  • Ethiopia: 2010, 2012/13, 2014, 2015/2016 (19 months)
  • Cook Islands: 2009 (2 months)
Research Interests and Regional Focus
  • Cultural Forgetting and Remembering
  • Critical Heritage Studies
  • Ethnicity
  • Minority Studies
  • Marginalization
  • Culture-Environment Adaptation
  • Culture and Language Documentation
  • Horn of Africa: Ethiopia
  • Oceania: Polynesia
Teaching
  • SoSe 2011
    „Wer weiß was? Das Konzept Wissen in Ozeanien“, Lehrbeauftragte am Institut für Ethnologie, Universität zu Köln
  • WS 2010/11
    Tutorium zum Basismodul 1 „Einführung in die Ethnologie“ am Institut für Ethnologie, Universität zu Köln
  • WS 2009/10
    Tutorium zum Basismodul 1 „Einführung in die Ethnologie“ am Institut für Ethnologie, Universität zu Köln
Publications

Edited Book

  • 2020. Being a Parent in the Field. Implications and Challenges of Accompanied Fieldwork. Bielefeld: Transcript. (co-edited with Michaela Haug, Katja Metzmacher and Rosalie Stolz)

Articles

  • 2020. Introduction: Being a Parent in the Field. Practical, Epistemological, Methodological and Ethical Implications of Accompanied Fieldwork. In: Fabienne Braukmann, Michaela Haug, Katja Metzmacher and Rosalie Stolz (eds.). Being a Parent in the Field. Implications and Challenges of Accompanied Fieldwork. Bielefeld: Transcript., pp. 9-36. (with Michaela Haug, Katja Metzmacher and Rosalie Stolz)
  • 2018. Overcoming layers of marginalization. Adaptive strategies of the Bayso and the Haro people of Lake Abbaya, southern Ethiopia. In: Susanne Epple (ed.). The state of status groups in Ethiopia. Minorities between marginalization and integration. Studien zur Kulturkunde. Berlin: Reimer Verlag, pp. 79-100. (with Susanne Epple)
  • 2014. “External designation versus self-identification: the case of the Bayso and Haro people on Gidiccho Island, Lake Abbaya.” In: Susanne Epple (ed.), Creating and crossing boundaries in Ethiopia. Dynamics of social categorization and differentiation. Münster: LIT Verlag, pp. 245-265. (with Susanne Epple)
  • 2012a. Marginalised hunters? Political and cultural challenges among the Haro of Lake Abaya (southern Ethiopia). Paideuma 58: 181-196.

Book

  • 2012b. Nilpferdjäger, Weber, Salzhändler. Wirtschaftliche Strategien und soziale Organisation der Haro Südäthiopiens im Wandel (Master Thesis, with an English summary). Kölner Ethnologische Beiträge. Heft 41. Köln: Institut für Ethnologie, Universität zu Köln.

Book Review

  • forthcoming. Girke, Felix (ed.). 2014. Ethiopian images of self and other. Schriften des Zentrums für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien, vol. 2. Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg. In: ITYOP̣IS – Northeast African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (NEAJ).
Invited Talk
  • 11/2018. Feldforschung in Südäthiopien mit Kind. Erfahrungsbericht einer Promovendin. Seminar „Mobilität von  Studierenden/Promovierenden mit Kind(ern)“, Internationale DAAD Akademie, Bonn.