The following list of the past projects of the Institute of Social Anthropology is sorted according to their respective date of closure.
A reconsideration/reexamination. The cosmopolitan city of Vienna within the context of the international scientific community
Project leader: Helmut Lukas
Contract researcher: Mag.a.Mag.a Sonja Peschek, Bakk.phil (sinologist, anthropologist)
Duration: 15.06.2015 – 15.12.2015
Financing: Stadt Wien (municipality of Vienna), MA7 / Austrian Academy of Sciences
This project deals with Heger's research activities and their impact on the international scientific community. The focus is on Heger's pioneering achievement in the research of bronze gongs of Southeast Asia (incl. Southwest China) at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1902 Heger conceptualized the best-known and up to now widely accepted classification of bronze drums (since the 1920s known as Dongson drums). The worldwide acceptance of Heger's classification scheme can be seen from the fact that in 2004 his book "Alte Metalltrommeln aus Südost-Asien" (1902, 2 volumes) was translated into Chinese. The archaeologist and anthropologist Franz Heger was curator of the anthropological-ethnographic collection of the Museum of Natural History in Vienna and the first director of the Museum of Ethnology Vienna (today World Museum Vienna).
Shiftings in Space Perceptions, Mobility Strategies, and Conceptions of Kinship
Project leader: Ines Kohl
Collaborator: Akidima Effad
Duration: 01.09.2011–31.08.2015
Financing: FWF (Projekt P23573-G17)
Website: www.ines-kohl.com/research-projects/sahara-connected/
The Sahara Connected project deals with the Tuareg´s modern mobility in the Central Sahara and its deeply interweavements with transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and globalization. The objectives of the project are investigations about changing space perceptions, strategies and tactics of mobility and conceptions of kinship and new developed social and spatial networks among the contemporary Tuareg society. A large part of the Tuareg is pushed into making transnational border crossings in order to gain new life strategies. In the last decade the Tuareg have developed a space of agency between Libya, Algeria, Niger and Mali. Thereby the boundaries between legal and illegal become merged, and the differences between trade, smuggling and migration become blurred. The Tuareg organize transportation, they provide the transport facilities, and deliver passengers and goods through the Sahara. This illegal transnational border business is called afrod. Those Tuareg who are the agents in this business are transnational cosmopolitans, who embody new elites of their society: They give directions to new ideas and developments and shape the modern Tuareg society. These transnational cosmopolitans are in the spotlight of the Sahara Connected project. On their example crucial shiftings in the modern Tuareg society will be identified:
We will deal with characteristics of the trans-Saharan tracks and shall grant a comprehensive study and analyses of the Tuareg´s unique form of transnational movements (afrod). The fact, that a large part of the Tuareg society is getting increasingly attached to displacement, deterritorialization and consequently also to hybridization, allows us to examine the implications of the transnational movements in terms of changing space perceptions, and the interpretation and appraisal of the imagined community (temust). Finally we shall illuminate critically traditional conceptions of kinship, articulate how the transnational movements affect change in groups, and investigate in new social and spatial networks, beyond sticking on social origin and group membership.
Methodologically the Sahara Connected project is founded on a pluralism: Multi-sited ethnography, participant observation and travelling along with mobile subjects (following the people and following the plots), together with a collection of life stories, comparative analyses, and visual anthropology.
Constructions of social groups and interethnic relationships in a Himalayan State of India.
Project leader: Guntram Hazod
Collaborator(s): Mélanie Vandenhelsken
Duration: 01.02.2010 - 31.01.2015
Cooperation: Centre for Human Sciences, New-Delhi; Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok, Sikkim, India
Financing: FWF (project P21886-G17)
The Indian State of Sikkim presents a significant ethnic diversity: people organised in Indo-Nepalese castes cohabit with so-called “tribes” (the autochthonous Lepcha and Limbu as well as Rai, Gurung, etc. and a group of Tibetan culture and language, the Bhotia). As everywhere in India, these populations are organised in administrative categories (Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, etc.) meant to be “compensatory discrimination.” This system has the paradox of seeking to resolve economic problems by characterizing these groups according to cultural criteria. It consequently maintains a representation of social divisions and inequalities in terms of ethnic belongingness and differentiation (i.e. ethnicity) as well as ancient ethnic tensions. It moreover triggers a “process of tribalisation” in which ethnic groups tend to identify themselves to “tribes” – as it is understood in India – in order to be included in the advantageous administrative categories. This situation raises questions regarding the relations between the State and the ethnic groups in Sikkim. This research programme intends to answer the following questions: do the ethnic solidarities in Sikkim oppose or accompany the building of a centralized State, what are the modalities of the building of ethnic solidarities and what role does the State play in this process? We propose to examine these questions by a crossed analysis of state policies towards the ethnic groups (past and present) and of the construction of collective identities in Sikkim based on a study of various dimensions of belongingness (households, clans, castes, etc.) – including local history of these social units –, of categories of otherness, inter-ethnic relations (mainly over labour and rituals) in several rural areas of Sikkim, and movements of identity affirmation. The hypothesis and expected result is that everyday relations between ethnic groups draw boundaries between them, which cut across categories implemented by the administration (mainly “tribe” and “caste”) while these categories are prevalent in the administrative and political organisation and in ethnic movements of identity affirmation. Such study comparing “State built ethnicity” with local histories and organisations, and combing “instrumentalist” and “constructionist” theoretical approaches will lead to a new understanding of ethnicity and inter-ethnic relations in Sikkim.
The residential concentration of the Turkish and Chinese communities and their image in the media in selected Viennese districts (2005-2012)
Project leader: Valeria Heuberger
Duration: 01.10.2013-31.12.2014
Financing: MA 7, Kultur-, Wissenschafts- und Forschungsförderung der Stadt Wien für 2013
The projects deals with the Turkish and Chinese communities in Vienna and their images in selected print media – also such published by the referring community - between 2005 and 2012: One assumption is that the Chinese are more positively portrayed than the Turks. Another topic concerns the issue of residential concentration of both migrant communities in selected Viennese districts like the 5th, 10th, 15th, 16th and 20th. Among the methods used are for example participant observation, “mapping” and “go-alongs”.
Project leader: Stephan Kloos
Duration: 01.08.2013-31.07.2016
Financing: FWF Einzelprojekt P 25997-G15
Website: www.stephankloos.org
This project used ethnographic research methods to produce the first comprehensive study of the pharmaceutical production of Tibetan medicine in exile. Besides generating hitherto non-existent qualitative and quantitative data on the topic (what quantities are produced where, and under what conditions, etc.), it particularly focused on contemporary exile-Tibetan notions of pharmaceutical efficacy, safety and quality. How are these concepts defined or redefined in pharmaceutical practice and on the traditional pharma market, and how are these redefinitions connected to larger transformations of exile-Tibetan culture and society?
This study builds on the results of Stephan Kloos’ previous work, which shows how Tibetan medicine has become a central domain where modern Tibetan culture, identity and nation are configured. At the same time, Tibetan medicine itself is increasingly defined and evaluated through its pharmaceutical products, mostly in the form of pills. By examining the production of Tibetan pills and the construction of their efficacy in a wider context, this research reveals the ways in which the capitalist market, global health policies, and transnational regimes of pharmaceutical regulation or intellectual property rights congeal in local health care scenarios, ethnic identity, imaginaries of the nation, and our very notions of what we consider efficacious or not.
Project leader: Eva-Maria Knoll
Duration: 01.03.2010-31.12.2014
Financing: core-funding
Different kinds of medicine- and health-related mobility are currently booming in Asia. When it comes to biomedical health care there are areas still disadvantaged. Patients in these regions might lack proper medical treatment due to geographical remoteness or due to a lack of local expertise. Thus patients and health-care providers alike are forced to become mobile. Asia furthermore is a booming destination of medical tourism since a growing number of patients from the Global North are seeking high-tech medical health care in this part of the world.
This research project focuses on diverse forms of conflict loading interactions between medicine and travel in Asia. The investigation of causes, patterns, and consequences of medical mobility and of its flows and counter-flows is based on anthropological fieldwork in connection with archival and literature studies.
World Views and their Relevance in every-day life
Project leader: Gebhard Fartacek
Duration: 01.01.2007 - 15.10.2014
On the basis of my previous research concerning the cognitive construction of holy places in peripheral areas of present-day Syria and local beliefs in jinn (demons, spirits) there is an evidence that “folk-religious” beliefs play an important role for conflict resolution and coping with life. In this project the interrelation of different kinds of conflict and different strategies in conflict-resolution will be analyzed systematically. The collection and interpretation of data will follow the approach of case-reconstructive research. Ethnographic field research will take place in Northern Arabia as well as along the Arabian/Persian Gulf.
Project leader: Gebhard Fartacek
Duration: 11.08.2009 – 15.10.2014
Short-titel: Zar Kult
This research project focuses on the performance of zar-rituals along the Arabian/Persian Gulf, which is mainly practiced by the minority of "Black Arabs". Based on a pilot study – which took place in Khuzestan in fall 2008 – it can be summed up that the (so called) "zar-cult" seem to play a highly significant role for the construction of collective identities and ethnic demarcations. Moreover, for the spiritual leaders (mama zar; baba zar) and other protagonists it provides a religious and social network which range all over the different countries of this region.
The main issue of this project is the development of anthropological research questions and working-hypotheses concerning the (epistemological) relevance of the "zar-cult" for the construction of ethnic boundaries and processes of socio-cultural transformations at the Arabian/Persian Gulf. The ethnographic field research will take place in Kuwait, Iran, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, as well as in Oman. The collection and interpretation of data will follow the approach of case-reconstructive research.
Project leader: Guntram Hazod
Cooperation: Tibetische Akademie für Sozialwissenschaften, Lhasa
Project duration: 01.10.2011-31.09.2014
Financing: Erstmittel
The historical-anthropological project draws on the author's earlier works on the historical geography and topology of the Tibetan Empire (7th-9th Century CE). Methodologically based on text and ethnographic fieldwork, the study aims to clarify open questions of the territorial order of the early Tibetan state. It mainly concerns questions of the identification of historical toponyms, and the historical and clan-historical contexts of key political sites and districts of the empire. Particular attention will be paid to the description of so far not documented evidences of the early history of Central Tibet, - ruin sites, grave fields, stone monuments, rock carvings, of which a number have already been recorded by the author during earlier campaigns. A precise cartographic, graphic and photographic documentation accompanies this study, which will be conducted in collaboration with the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences, Lhasa (TASS). The planned book publication will be a compilation of revised previous studies of the author as wells as of several newly prepared contributions.
Project leader (and collaborator): Christian Jahoda
Collaborator(s): Hubert Feiglstorfer, Christiane Kalantari
Cooperation: Tsering Gyalpo, Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences, Lhasa, Patrick Sutherland, University of the Arts, London
Duration: 1.10.2009 – 30.09.2014
Financing: FWF (Project P21806-G19)
The main goal of the project is to study the various structural and historical interrelationships between society, power and religion in pre-modern Western Tibet (primarily Purang and Guge during the period between the 10th and 17th centuries). This is done with particular regard to processes of interaction, conflict and integration and by adopting a collaborative transdisciplinary approach characterised by combining research in the fields of Tibetology, social anthropology and art history. A strong focus will be on the prevailing forms of social, political and religious organisation and the development of and changes in the religio-political order and corresponding concepts, thereby paying attention also to internal and external conflicts. This includes a profound study of the royal lineage(s) from whose ranks the powerholders and eminent religio-political leaders (such as the royal lama Yeshe Ö) came as well as of clans, aristocratic and religious lineages of local or Central Tibetan origin. Based on hitherto unknown textual evidence and a variety of new findings from the Khartse area and other sites where the Great Translator Rinchen Zang po, one of the most influential religious figures of Western Tibet, was active, it is intended to attain a better understanding of the latter’s activities and functions, also including retrospective views of later periods. Detailed analysis will also concern the cult of local and protective deities which played an important role not only within folk religion and monastic Buddhism but was also of great importance for members of the royal lineages and accordingly represents a fundamental element linking and integrating the social, political and religious spheres.
Project leader: Eva-Maria Knoll
Duration: 01.03.2010 -
Financing: mixed
Short-titel: Tourism Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is a connecting element providing a cultural space characterized by past and present mobility. Whether maritime trade, ethnic migration, expedition and conquest journeys, colonialism, military strategies, or the spread of religious movements – the Indian Ocean was and is the hub and the medium between heterogeneous regions and world views. Today the Indian Ocean ranks among the most prominent tourist regions in the world. The manifold aspects of mobility in this seascape provide potentials and advantages for trade and intercultural exchange. Simultaneously, many dimensions of mobility also are conflict-laden.
This project aims at exploring the potentials and frictions of the global touristic flows in interaction with their local socio-cultural and economic contexts. This investigation therefore is focused on selected parts of the Indian Ocean’s island world. It finds itself in a particularly precarious situation today, due to the forces of globalization. The project will throw some light on the relationship between hosts and guests as well as on the tourism industry as the organizing and structuring element in between. The aim of this project is to investigate a number of tensions of the local worlds shaped by tourism in the Indian Ocean: between the usage and appropriation of space; between mobility and place making; among touristic centers and local peripheries; or among the center stage and backstage arenas. The methods of this investigation are social anthropological fieldwork, complemented by literature and archival research.
Thereby bodily aspects like gender or health will equally be of particular interest as well as technical features. The ecological conditions of coral islands have resulted in a particular, highly technology-driven form of tourism in the Indian Ocean: on the Maldives, for example, almost every hotel is an island and each of this tourist islands is a technical marvel. By its own generation of electricity, by sweet water- and liquid waste processing units on such a limited space, the tourist island seems to be almost self-sufficient. In reality, however, these tourist islands are highly dependent on the global flows of goods, especially of food and fuel, and on the flows of staff and tourists.
Project leader: Dr. Marieke Brandt
Duration: 01.10.2011-31.09.2013
Financing: EU Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (IEF)
The tribal confederation of Khawlan b. ‘Amir (or Khawlan b. Quda’ah) in south-western Arabia consists of eight sub-tribes. The main settlement areas of five sub-tribes are located on Yemeni and three on Saudi Arabian territory. In past centuries the tribes of Khawlan b. ‘Amir were involved to different degrees in south-western Arabia’s political power structures, which were substantially affected by the Zaydi-Shiite imamate and, since 1962, by the establishment of the Sunni-dominated Republic of Yemen.
Since 2004, the Yemeni Khawlan b. ‘Amir tribes were gradually drawn into the so-called ‘Huthi’ conflict between revanchist Zaydi rebels and the central government of Yemen. The Huthi conflict can be seen as a newly contextualized continuation of a political process which began in the 9th century AD with the establishment of the Zaydi imamate in northern Yemen and led with the revolution in 1962 and the ensuing civil war to the founding of the Republic of Yemen.
The aim of this work is to explore the emergence of new tribal loyalties and alliances within the Khawlan b. ‘Amir tribes that arose from their involvement in the Huthi conflict. Most Khawlan b. ‘Amir tribes had strongly supported royalist forces in the revolution of 1962 and the ensuing civil war due to historically evolved loyalties. By contrast, the Huthi conflict made obvious that the state policy of co-optation in the past few decades already led to a solid integration of most tribal leaders into the political system of the Republic. Therefore, in the Huthi conflict the majority of high-ranking Khawlan b. ‘Amir leaders positioned themselves on the side of the Republic, but many of them once again changed allegiances towards the Huthi side when the rebels gained power in Sa‘dah governorate in spring 2011. Since some of the tribal leaders did not represent the position of their own tribes, but were rather in confrontation with them, new alliances and divisions within the tribal society of Khawlan b. ‘Amir emerged.
The project addresses the complex reasons for the profound changes of tribal alignments, allegiances and alliances in the investigation area during the Huthi conflict and beyond. The source material for this investigation of Khawlan b. ‘Amir tribal politics is based on the author’s experience inside Yemen, as well as on thoroughly scrutinizing original Arabic and some Western written sources.
Interdisciplinary perspectives on their significance in past and present.
Projektleitung: Eva-Maria Knoll
Projektlaufzeit: 01.09.2009 – 07.2013
Finanzierung: Mischfinanzierung
Kurztitel: Camels in Asia
The histories of camels and humans were, and continue to be, intrinsically linked in the arid areas of Asia and North-Africa. Humans would not have been able to survive there without this unique and remarkable creature. In addition, the distinctive interaction between humans and camels has been of continuous concern to the Austrian Academy of Sciences, ever since its foundation more than 160 years ago. This conference and publication project continues with this research tradition and aims at putting the camel and respective human/animal interactions at center stage of academic interest.
The international camel conference in October 2010 was organized as an interdisciplinary endeavor and resulted in a fruitful knowledge exchange between the two major academic branches, i.e. the natural sciences and the humanities. The comprehensive discussion on Old World camels (Dromedary and Bactrian) includes the topics of camel’s origin and domestication, breeding, caring, trading, and their significance in socio-economics, in veterinary and folk medicine, in petroglyphs, poetry and music, as well as the conservation of the last Wild Camel populations.
The conference “Camels in Asia and North-Africa” took place with about 100 participants in Vienna (October 5 to 7, 2010).
Due to its successful results the conference proceedings will be published with the AAS.
Camel songs¹
Three of the four camel songs below belong to the bogino duu genre. They are performed by men and women and can also be accompanied by musical instruments. Sung only in unofficial situations, they are easier and more variable than the urtyn duu songs. Bogino duu are highly melodic, syllabic and strophic songs, which are performed in a plain style. They have a very precise rhythm and are based on a pentatonic scale.
The songs mainly express social satire and critique, but their wide-ranging subjects also include everyday life, nomadic activities, advice, lullabies, love and animals, especially horses and camels. These songs can also be improvised according to the particular situation in order to cope with difficult relationships or everyday incidents.
Another noteworthy feature is the alliteration at the beginning of the individual stanzas that is very typical of Mongolian songs.
In contrast to the other examples of songs, Inge xȫslöx učir (song to soothe a mother camel) is an official ritual song of Mongolian animal breeders that is sung to make mother camels accept either their own newborns after a difficult birth or other camel calves that lost their mothers.
Mandarinenten (vgl. Song to Soothe a Mother Camel) Karawane beim Umzug, 2007 Kamelmelken, Altaigebirge 2007 Kamel und Otgoo, 2006
o The Decorated Yurt [MP3] o Lover of the Caravanner [MP3]
o The Prancing Camel [MP3] o Song to Soothe a Mother Camel [MP3]
o Lyrics [PDF]
Knoll, Eva-Maria & Burger, Pamela (eds.): Camels in Asia and North Africa. Interdisciplinary perspectives on their Past and Present Significance. Austrian Academy of Sciences Publishers, forthcoming 2012
¹ Chuluunbaatar, Otgonbayar, 2007: Zastiin Nogoodoi – Tribal Zakhchin Music of Western Mongolia. Vocals Otgonbayar Chuluunbaatar, Instruments Wolfgang Hofer, Audio CD, 33 songs, zakhchinmusic@yahoo.de
Project leader: Johann Heiss
Project coordinator: Johannes Feichtinger (Institute for Culture Studies and History of Theatre, AAS)
Collaborator(s): Marion Gollner, Simon Hadler (Institute for Culture Studies and History of Theatre, AAS) (former collaborators: Silvia Dallinger, Johanna Witzeling)
Duration: 01.01.2009 -
Website: Türkengedächtnis
The project provides a new approach to a specific group of monuments that to a singular degree have been the subject of political propaganda and a source of conflict: memorials and monuments commemorating the ‘Turks’, i.e. the Ottoman Empire, as a major adversary of the Habsburg Empire. The chief areas of investigation are the regions affected by Turkish invasions throughout Central Europe in general and the territory, which is now Austria, in particular. The period of time under investigation covers the age of the ‘cult of monuments’, i.e. the 19th and 20th centuries. The project examines the historical exploitation of images of ‘the enemy’ and reveals the conditions and processes, which made the emergence of such images possible.
Project leader: Dr. Stephan Kloos
Duration: 01.06.2011-31.05.2013
Financing: EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship
Website: www.stephankloos.org
Tibetan medicine is becoming an increasingly popular complementary medicine around the world. Yet, little is known about the causes and conditions of its global spread or its recent history. This project aimed to produce the first in-depth critical history of Tibetan medicine in exile from 1960 until the present, focusing particularly on the dynamics of its globalization, commoditization and pharmaceuticalization. The results of this study provide a solid and so far non-existent basis for any academic, political or technological engagement with Tibetan medicine and related “traditional” Asian medicines like Ayurveda or TCM.
Despite almost 1400 years of recorded history, Tibetan medicine has arguably never changed and expanded as dramatically and within as short a period of time as during the last 50 years in exile. Paradoxically, however, it is exactly this, the most accessible part of its history both in temporal and political terms that we have the least scholarly information about. Tibetan medicine’s recent history in exile is not only singular in terms of its contemporary pertinence, but it also remains untold. This research project fills this gap.
The study produced a detailed historical account of how Tibetan medicine was re-established in exile and developed, since then, into a globally known alternative health resource and booming industry. This historical account is marked not only by unprecedented detail and hitherto unavailable data, but also by analytical rigor and a commitment to reveal the big picture. By focusing on the dynamics of globalization, commodification and pharmaceuticalization, it locates Tibetan medicine within the context of global health policies, biopolitics and late capitalism.
Among National Elites and Local Muslims
Project leader: Martin Slama
Duration: 01.01.2010 -
Financing: AAS Grant
The project explores the Hadhrami diaspora in contemporary Indonesia from two perspectives: First, it looks at elite Hadhramis who have risen to highest status in Indonesian society on the national and regional level and who are key figures in the diaspora communities. The focus lies on the high standing of Hadhramis, their constructions of authority, and their translocal elite networking. Investigation sites are Java – particularly Jakarta, where some Hadhramis have become part of the national elite – and Indonesian peripheral regions – like Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and the Moluccas, where Hadhramis have gained influence through their Islamic organisations, established aristocratic status, or recent political leadership. Secondly, the project studies Hadhrami’s involvement in the violent conflicts that broke out in parts of eastern Indonesia along religious lines after the fall of Suharto in 1998, highlighting their roles in conflict resolution. With its focus on elite Hadhramis and Hadhramis’ roles in conflicts the project advances into a research field that promises new insights concerning the reproduction of the diaspora, the divisions inside the diaspora and Hadhramis’ influence on the development of Islam in Indonesia.
The study of elite Hadhramis raises questions regarding correlations between Arab ethnicity, Islamic authority and their institutionalisation in Islamic organisations – both in the centre and eastern peripheries of Indonesia. It does especially do so in the context of conflicts and efforts of mediation and reconciliation, asking how these conflicts affected the status of prominent Hadhramis within the diaspora and in wider society. These investigations into the elite status of Hadhramis will be supported by the study of kinship, reflecting Hadhramis’ emphasis on endogamy and genealogies. This emphasis is strongest among those Hadhramis who consider themselves as descendants of the prophet Mohammed and thus claim a certain elite status because of their genealogy – a claim which is contested by other Hadhramis.
Project leader (and collaborator): Christian Jahoda
Collaborator(s): Veronika Hein
Cooperation: Tsering Gyalpo, Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences, Lhasa; Patrick Sutherland, University of the Arts, London
Duration: 13.04.2008 - 12.04.2013
Financing: FWF (Project P20637-G15)
Oral and festival traditions represent a salient feature of the society of Western Tibet which permeates various cultural spheres and activities. In this project, diverse forms of oral traditions are studied together with their performative ‘contexts’, which in fact represent an essential constitutive element of these traditions. The main focus of the investigations is on the oral and related festival traditions belonging to (or integrated into) the sphere of folk culture and religion of the local village communities. Reciprocal influences and transitional processes characterising the historical and structural relationships between the oral and festival traditions of the local village communities and those associated with the royal, aristocratic and religious elite are considered. Therefore, political and socio-economic factors and processes of cultural memory and renewal constitute central aspects of the conceptual framework of this project. The detailed comparative analysis will focus particularly on wedding songs and rituals, village festivals (mainly seasonal festivals which are often related to the cult of protective deities) and festive assemblies, folksongs (and accompanying performative elements), certain types of religious practitioners and specialists (for example trance-mediums) and in association with them certain forms of folk oratory, as well as narrative forms of oral traditions. The research methodology followed combines anthropological fieldwork (in particular audio-visual recording) with in-depth analyses of (both oral and written) texts and performance events in their respective socio-economic and political setting.
Project leader: o.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andre Gingrich, w.M. - taken over by: Dr. Hildegard Diemberger (Cambridge)
Collaborators:
Dr. Guntram Hazod
Dr. Charles Ramble
Dr. Gabriele Tautscher
Dr. Christian Schicklgruber
Mag. Christian Jahoda
Mag. Kirsten Melcher
Mag. Eika Vorndran
Duration: 01.04.1998 - 01.05.2001
Financing: FWF (Project P12874-SPR)
Social Organization and Interethnic System of the Maniq-Semang (South Thailand)
Project leader: Univ.-Doz. Dr. Helmut Lukas
Collaborators: Pacchira Chindaritha (Thailand)
Durationt: 01.04.1998 - 01.03.2001 (ab 1.12.2000 an der Kommission für Sozialanthropologie angesiedelt)
Financing: FWF (Project P 12142-SOZ)
Project leader: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walter Dostal, w.M.
In Ergänzung dazu gemeinsam mit der Österreichischen Orient-Gesellschaft Hammer-Purgstall:
Der interethnische und intrareligiöse Dialog unter Muslimen. Eine Untersuchung im Rahmen des Projektes "Handbuch: Muslime in Wien. Ein Leitfaden zur Konfliktprävention."
Project leader Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walter Dostal, w.M.
Coordination: Dr. Siegfried Haas
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Walter Dostal, w.M.
Duration: - 31-01.2001