Austrian Academy of Sciences ISA - INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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Research

  • Islamic Middle East
    • Postcolonial Approaches to Memory, Continuity and Change in Southwest Arabia
    • ZOZAN - Investigations on mobility through multimedia documentations, art interventions, art-based research and (re)presentations.
    • The Austro-Arab Encounter
    • COVID-19 in refugee and integration contexts
    • Ethnicity under ʾ iḥtilāl: A Comparative Study of two Minority Communities
    • Forschungen in von Kurden bewohnten Regionen
    • Humorous Art and Reconfiguring Palestinian Discourse
    • Sharaf-nāma. Amīr Sharaf Khān Bidlīsī A Persian Source for the History of Kurds
    • Memoryscapes in multiple modernities
  • Tibet, Mongolia, Central Asia and Tibetan-speaking Himalaya Regions
    • The Burial Mounds of Central Tibet, Part II
    • Art & Anthropology. Scientific-Artistic Research between Mongolia and Austria
    • The scientific Tibet legacy of Peter Aufschnaiter
    • Asian Medical Industries
    • Dispersed and Connected. Artistic Fragments Along the Steppe and Silk Roads
    • Early West Tibetan Buddhist Monuments
    • Crafts and craft traditions in Tibetan architecture
    • Independence and Research Networks
    • Integrating Traditional Medicine: Sowa Rigpa and the State in India
    • Performance Traditions in Spiti, Upper Kinnaur, Purang, and Limi
    • Vienna Mongolian Studies Conference
  • Southeast Asia and Islands of the Indian Ocean
    • Diasporic Hadhrami (Re-)Positioning in Indonesia’s Changing Religious and Political Fields
    • Genetic Responsibility & Remoteness
    • Health and Environmental Challenges in Indian Ocean Islands and Shoreline Countries
    • Mobilities and socio-environmental frictions in hazard prone locations at Indonesian frontiers
    • Religion, Economy and Gender in the Upper Mekong Region: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives
    • Religiosities of Housing, Socio-Economic Inequality and Notions of Emptiness in Insular Southeast Asia
    • Social Media and Islamic Practice: Consequences of Being Digitally Pious in Indonesia
    • Transnational networks & transformation of Muslim communities (TRANSCAMUS)
  • Cross Cutting Themes
    • The Austro-Arab Encounter
    • History of Asian Ethnographies
    • Global Eurasia: comparison and connectivity
    • Methodology and Epistemology in Socio-Cultural Anthropology
    • Orient-Knowledge and Interaction
    • Transnational networks & transformation of Muslim networks (TRANSCAMUS)
    • Visions of Community (VISCOM)
    • Socio-cultural anthropology during Austria’s interwar period: Academic interactions with church and politics
    • Völkerkunde“/Socio-cultural Anthropology during the Nazi era from Vienna (1938-1945)
    • History of anthropology of Caucasus and "Turkestan" research in Vienna during the Nazi period
  • Project Archive
    • Pluralism as Practice
    • Chai for Change? Narratives of Adivasi Indigeneities, Self-Reliance and Activism
    • Contested Landscapes: Mainland and Island Imaginaries of the Andaman Islands
    • Archivierung und Digitialisierung von Himalaya & Hindukush-Forschungen in Wiener Sammlungen
    • Tribalism, religious radicalization, fossil energy, and the state: Deciphering local power politics in Yemen’s frontier provinces Saʿda and al-Jawf
    • Materiality and Material Culture in Tibet
    • Urban Visions in Southeast Asia
  • ISA
  • Research
    • Cross Cutting Themes
    • Islamic Middle East
    • Tibet, Mongolia, Central Asia and Tibetan-speaking Himalaya Regions
    • Southeast Asia and Islands of the Indian Ocean
    • Cross Cutting Themes
    • Project Archive

Cross Cutting Themes

ISA's research efforts also pursue translocal topics in historical as well as in contemporary contexts.

The current situation of refugees from parts of Asia and Africa coming to Central Europe is addressed by ISA's active participation in the interdisciplinary "Refugee Outreach and Research Network (ROR-n)". Dimensions of medieval "Visions of Community", on the other hand, are compared by ISA's participation in the "VISCOM" cooperation with Asian philologists and European medievalists.

Ongoing Projects

  • The Austro-Arab Encounter
  • History of Asian Ethnographies
  • Global Eurasia: comparison and connectivity
  • Methodology and Epistemology in Socio-Cultural Anthropology
  • Orient-Knowledge and Interaction
  • Transnational networks & transformation of Muslim networks (TRANSCAMUS)
  • Visions of Community (VISCOM)
  • Socio-cultural anthropology during Austria’s interwar period: Academic interactions with church and politics
  • Völkerkunde“/Socio-cultural Anthropology during the Nazi era from Vienna (1938-1945)
  • History of anthropology of Caucasus and "Turkestan" research in Vienna during the Nazi period

Institute for Social Anthropology
of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Hollandstraße 11–13
1020 Vienna
E: sozialanthropologie(at)oeaw.ac.at
T +43 1 51581 - 6450

Institut for Social Anthropology

Social anthropology studies humanity in its social relations and different cultural contexts.

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