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People’s embededness in social relations and cultural frameworks lie at the heart of social anthropology. Whereas in the past, social anthropolgy set out to study supposedly simple social organisations in small-scale societies that were thought to exist outside and independently of the industrialized West, the focus nowaday shifted towards an inquiry of globalisation and related migratory processes. These developments led to a new emphasis on culural differences and interconnections wihin the West as well as its relation to other regions in the world.

Contemporary social anthropolgy is dedicated to a critical appraisal of such processes and to the development of solution-oriented approaches. Consequently, Europe provides a field of activity for social anthropology. Comparative case studies, philological-historical analysis and empirical data collections constitute indispensable methods necessary for conducting successful and valuable research in social anthropology. Moreover, multi-disciplinary research activities and international cooperation are essential to the accomplishment of our research objectives.

 
 Latest News
[2013/05/23] ISA Guest Lecture: Where and Why I Found Socio-Cultural Anthropology Useful

 

ISA-Einladung

Christina Lutter (Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien): "Where and Why I Found Socio-Cultural Anthropology Useful: A Historian's Account"

Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2013, 16:00 [s.t.]

 
[2013/06/06-07] 8. Tage der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

 

ISA-Einladung

"8. Tage der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie - Vienna Anthropology Days" am Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Universität Wien

Donnerstag, 6. und Freitag, 7. Juni 2013

 
[2013/06/24] ISA International Guest Lecture

 

ISA-Einladung

John McCarthy (Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University): "Community Driven Development, Food Security and Vulnerability in a Post Crisis Context: The Case of Post Tsunami Aceh"

Montag, 24. Juni 2013, 16:00 [s.t.]

 
’Khor chags / Khorchag / Kuojia si wenshi daguan

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TSERING GYALPO; JAHODA, Christian; KALANTARI, Christiane; SUTHERLAND, Patrick
འཁོར་ཆགས། / Khorchag / 廓迦寺文史大观. Lhasa: Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang.
(ISBN: 978-7-80589-204-7)

 
Geschichtspolitik und "Türkenbelagerung"

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FEICHTINGER, Johannes; HEISS, Johann (Hg.)
Geschichtspolitik und "Türkenbelagerung".

(ISBN: 978385476-613-1)

 
ÖAW Workingpaper, Band 25
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Band 25
Haifa Al-Hababi
Titel: The Art Of Women In ’Asir (Saudi Arabia)

 
ÖAW Workingpaper, Band 24
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Band 24
David N. Gellner
Titel: Uncomfortable Antinomies: Going Beyond Methodological Nationalism in Social and Cultural Anthropolog

 
 Project Presentation
Interaction in the Himalayas and Central Asia

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Project directors: Christiane Kalantari, Maria-Katharina Lang, Guntram Hazod, Christian Jahoda
Consultant: Jorinde Ebert
Cooperations: SEECHAC (Société Européenne pour l'Étude des Civilisations de l'Himalaya et de l'Asie Centrale), Paris; Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale Giuseppe Tucci, Rome; National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences, Lhasa, PR China; University of Vienna
Project Duration: 06.01.2012-31.12.2015
Budget:
AAS/ISA, SEECHAC, private foundations