Andre Gingrich Short Bio Andre Gingrich did most of his ethnographic fieldwork in southern Arabia. A founding member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), he directs the Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Affiliation Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT Website https://www.oeaw.ac.at/m/gingrich-andre/ Sessions, Talks Pilots of history: activating some hidden potentials of ethnographic field work