Prof. Dr. Gabriele Alex
Director of the department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Address
Universität Tübingen
Asien-Orient-Institut
Abteilung für Ethnologie
Burgsteige 11
72070 Tübingen
+49 (0)7071 - 29 - 78 53 8
gabriele.alex @uni-tuebingen.de
Room: 127
Office hours
Consultation hours take place every Tuesday from 12-1:30 pm.
Please register by e-mail in advance.
Research
Regional Focus
- South Asia, especially South India (Tamil Nadu)
Thematic Focus
- Medical anthropology
- Anthropology of childhood and youth
- Migration
Research projects
- Discomforting Heritage: Practices and discourses of dealing with objects from colonial contexts in anthropological museums
- Literary Cultures of the Global South [link]
- Projekt E07 im SFB923: Re-ordering processes in humanitarian emergency response: local and global negotiation strategies
- Projekt C06 im SFB1070: Reis und Heilpflanzen: Die Konstruktion nährender und heilender Pflanzen in Südindien
- Medical Diversity in South India
- Superdiversity and pathw ays to health care in four European countries
Seit 11/2010
Lehrstuhlinhaberin Professur für Südasien
an der Abteilung für Ethnologie Tübingen
05/2003
Promotion
Brunel University, West London
Thema: Children and Childhood in Rural Tamil Nadu. Aspects of Ritual, Kinship, Gender, and Education among Children and Youth of Rural Tamil Nadu.
06/1996
Master of Science in Medical Anthropology
Brunel University, West London
Thema: Pregnancy and Childbirth in Berlin.
09/1993
Magister Artium Ethnologie, Soziologie und Publizistik
Freie Universität Berlin
Thema Magisterarbeit: Wert und Zahlung- Das Problem des Brautpreises.
Detailed Vita
Publications
Monographs
2014
Edited with K.Krause and D.Parkin: Turning Therapies: Placing Medical Diversity, Special Issue 'Medical Anthropology', Vol. 33 (1).
2014
Fieldwork in South Aisa, Special Issue 'The Oriental Anthropologist', Vol. 14 (1) .
2013
Edited with D. Parkin and K.Krause: Therapeutic Crisis, Diversification and Mainstreaming: Special Issue 'Anthropology and Medicine', Vol 20 (2).
Essays
2013
Alex, Gabriele und Frank Heidemann: Tamil Nadu. Inequality and Status. In 'The Modern Anthropology of India', ed. by Peter Berger und Frank Heidemann, Routledge, pp.260-275.
2012
Alex, Gabriele; Bettina Beer und Bernhard Hadolt: Einleitung. Authentizität und Kommodifizierung von Gesundheit und Heilung; in Alex, Gabriele; Bettina Beer und Bernhard Hadolt (Hg.)
Wa(h)re Medizin. Zur Authentizität und Kommodifizierung von Gesundheit und Heilung, Special Issue: Curare 35, 3.,S. 162-165.
2012
Die Professionalisierung der tamilischen Vagri-Medizin , in 2012 Alex, Gabriele; Bettina Beer und Bernhard Hadolt (Hg.)
Wa(h)re Medizin. Zur Authentizität und Kommodifizierung von Gesundheit und Heilung, Special Issue: Curare 35, 3., S. 219-229.
Reviews
2008
Thiruchandran, Selvy 2001 Feminine Speech Transmissions. An Exploration into the lullabies and dirges of women. Women's education and research centre. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, and 2006 Stories from the Diaspora: Tamil women, writing. Colombo: Vijitha Yapa Publications. Social Anthropology 2008.
2008
Arnold, David 2006. The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze. India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856. (Studies in Anthropology and Environment. Devon Pena and K.Sivaramakrishnan, Series editors). Seattle and London: University of Washington Social Anthropology.
2007
Kuper, Adam 2005 The reinvention of primitive society. Transformations of a myth, Routledge, London and New York. Anthropological Forum 2007.
Detailed Publication list
Teachings
Summer term 2018
Sabbatical
Winter term 2017/18
Seminar
Title: Plan/Designing Research Projects
Module: ETH-MA-02-2
Time: Tuesday, 12 noon - 2 pm
Place: Castle, R220
Lecture
Title: Theorien und Methoden
Module: BA-02-1
Time: Wednesday, 12 noon - 2 pm
Place: Neue Aula, HS10
Summer term 2017
Seminar
Title: Forschung/Anwendung: Ethnologie des Körpers
Module: ETH-BA-05
Time: Tuesday, 2 pm - 4 pm
Place: Castle, R03
Colloquium
Title: MA-Kolloqioum
Module: MA-09-1
Time: Tuesday, 10 am - 12 noon
Place: Castle, R220
Colloquium
Title: BA-Kolloquium
Module: BA-11-1
Time: Wednesday, 9 am - 12 noon
Place: Castle, R03
Winter term 2016/17
Seminar
Title: Planung/Vorbereitung Mobilitätssemester
Module: (BA-07-1)
Time: Tuesday 10 am - 2 pm, c.t.
Place: -
Lecture
Title: Theorien und Methoden
Time: Wednesday 10 am - 12 noon, c.t.
Place: Neue Aula, HS2
Summer term 2016
Seminar
Title: Forschung/Anwendung: Visuelle Ethnologie
Module: (BA-05-2)
Time: Tuesday. 10 am - 2 pm, c.t.
Place: Brechtbau
Title: Forschung/Anwendung: Materialität/Konsum
Module: (BA-05-2)
Time: Tuesday 6 pm - 8 pm, c.t.
Place: Room 03, Castle
Colloqium
Title: Bachelor- und Master-Kolloquium
Module: (BA-11-1); (MA-09-1)
Time: Wednesday 9 am - 12 noon, c.t.
Place: Room 03, Castle