• Institute for Social Anthropology

    The Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is oriented towards the programmatic theme “Consensus and Conflict in Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean Region”. Our research comprises the following regional foci: the Islamic Middle East and North Africa; primarily Buddhist Central Asia (Tibet, Mongolia and the Tibetanspeaking Himalaya region); Southeast Asia and the islands of the Indian Ocean.

    Mission Statement
  • Institute for Social Anthropology

    The Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is oriented towards the programmatic theme “Consensus and Conflict in Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean Region”. Our research comprises the following regional foci: the Islamic Middle East and North Africa; primarily Buddhist Central Asia (Tibet, Mongolia and the Tibetanspeaking Himalaya region); Southeast Asia and the islands of the Indian Ocean.

    Mission Statement
  • Institute for Social Anthropology

    The Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is oriented towards the programmatic theme “Consensus and Conflict in Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean Region”. Our research comprises the following regional foci: the Islamic Middle East and North Africa; primarily Buddhist Central Asia (Tibet, Mongolia and the Tibetanspeaking Himalaya region); Southeast Asia and the islands of the Indian Ocean.

    Mission Statement
  • Institute for Social Anthropology

    The Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is oriented towards the programmatic theme “Consensus and Conflict in Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean Region”. Our research comprises the following regional foci: the Islamic Middle East and North Africa; primarily Buddhist Central Asia (Tibet, Mongolia and the Tibetanspeaking Himalaya region); Southeast Asia and the islands of the Indian Ocean.

    Mission Statement
  • Institute for Social Anthropology

    The Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is oriented towards the programmatic theme “Consensus and Conflict in Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean Region”. Our research comprises the following regional foci: the Islamic Middle East and North Africa; primarily Buddhist Central Asia (Tibet, Mongolia and the Tibetanspeaking Himalaya region); Southeast Asia and the islands of the Indian Ocean.

    Mission Statement

The Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is oriented towards the programmatic theme “Consensus and Conflict in Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean Region”. Our research comprises the following regional foci: the Islamic Middle East and North Africa; primarily Buddhist Central Asia (Tibet, Mongolia and the Tibetanspeaking Himalaya region); Southeast Asia and the islands of the Indian Ocean.

Mission Statement

Events

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Wed, 09.04.2025

ISA Retreat Keynote: Florian Mühlfried

“Egalitarian” and “Segmentary Societies" Revisited: The Strange Afterlife of Concepts

Tue, 08.04.2025

Workshop: Encounters with the Photographic Archive

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Researching, Representing, and Exhibiting Photographs – Examples from Central and Southeastern Europe…

Thu, 03.04.2025

ISA Regional Guest Lecture: Dona Kahfi MA Iballa

Examining Hadith through Living Hadith Studies: The Case of the Balimau Tradition in Kuntu Society, Sumatra, Indonesia

Tue, 25.03.2025

17th Eric Wolf Lecture: Tania Murray Li

Facing Power: Ethnographic Encounters in Indonesia’s Plantation Zone