Christian Jahoda ist Senior Researcher am Institut für Sozialanthropologie (ISA) der ÖAW mit einer Spezialisierung auf tibetische Gesellschaften. Er ist Hauptmitarbeiter (und Leiter) des vom FWF geförderten Forschungsprojekts „Der wissenschaftliche Tibet-Nachlass von Peter Aufschnaiter“. Er ist der Autor von Socio-economic Organisation in a Border Area of Tibetan Culture: Tabo, Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India (2015) und mit Tsering Gyalpo, Christiane Kalantari and Patrick Sutherland, der Autor von Khorchag, einer Monographie in drei Sprachen über Geschichte und kulturelle Traditionen in Khortschag (Purang) in Westtibet (2021, 2. rev. Auflage, 2015). Seine neuesten Veröffentlichungen sind Early West Tibetan Buddhist Monuments (Dez. 2021, herausgegeben zusammen mit Christiane Kalantari) mit einem Fokus auf religiöse, kulturelle, politische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen des gesamten westtibetischen Sprachraums, vor allem in den formativen Phasen des westtibetischen Königreichs vom 10. bis zum frühen 13. Jahrhundert, weiters The Social and the Religious in the Making of Tibetan Societies (2022, herausgegeben zusammen mit Guntram Hazod und Mathias Fermer; 2022), und “Peter Aufschnaiter (1899–1973): A fresh biographical sketch. With extracts from his unpublished diaries, manuscripts, papers, and letters (translated from German by Claudia Aufschnaiter)”, in Cüppers, Christoph, Everding, Karl-Heinz and Schwieger, Peter (eds) A Life in Tibetan Studies: Festschrift for Dieter Schuh at the Occasion of his 80th Birthday. Lumbini: Lumbini International Research Institute, 355–420.
1. (2023) Peter Aufschnaiter (1899–1973): A fresh biographical sketch. With extracts from his unpublished diaries, manuscripts, papers, and letters (translated from German by Claudia Aufschnaiter). In: Cüppers, Christoph, Everding, Karl-Heinz and Schwieger, Peter (eds) A Life in Tibetan Studies: Festschrift for Dieter Schuh at the Occasion of his 80th Birthday. Lumbini: Lumbini International Research Institute, 355–420.
2. (2022) with Guntram Hazod & Mathias Fermer (eds) The Social and the Religious in the Making of Tibetan Societies: New Perspectives on Imperial Tibet. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 1–6. https://austriaca.at/9008-0inhalt?frames=yes
3. (2021) with Kalantari, Christiane (eds) Early West Tibetan Buddhist Monuments: Architecture, Art, History and Texts. (Studies and Materials on Historical Western Tibet, Volume III). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 441 pp. https://austriaca.at/8777-6inhalt?frames=yes
4. (2021) Public buildings and/as symbolic framing of urban-rural communal practice in Western Tibet. In: Hovden, Eirik, Kümmeler, Fabian and Judith Majorossy (eds) Practicing Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (1000–1600). Leiden: Brill, 115–148. https://brill.com/view/title/60086?language=en
5. (2021) Notes on foundations and endowments in Historical Western Tibet (late 10th–15th century). In: Hovden, Eirik, Kümmeler, Fabian and Judith Majorossy (eds) Practicing Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000–1600): Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Leiden: Brill, 355–377. https://brill.com/view/title/60086?language=en
6. (2019) Inscriptions in areas of Historical Western Tibet (mNga’ ris skor gsum) in their contexts: A brief overview with selected examples. In: Medieval Worlds, 10: 199–251; https://medievalworlds.net/medievalworlds_no10_2019
7. (2018) Notes on the performance and meaning of the Sherken and Namtong festivals in areas of Historical Western Tibet (mNga’ ris skor gsum). In: Hazod, Guntram and Shen Weirong (eds) Tibetan Genealogies: Studies in Memoriam of Guge Tsering Gyalpo (1961–2015). Beijing: China Tibetology Publishing House: 679–704. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/-MHWcq3O8iwd6pPOK8_sGQ?fbclid=IwAR2aNWSbzKcr2ejY0dpWf6jvHc5DqbC8skI-mdx51FqlOK5P2D3w5h9Ujq0
8. (2017) Towards a history of Spiti: Some comments on the question of clans from the perspective of social anthropology. In: Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, 41 (Sept. 2017): 128–159; http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ret/pdf/ret_41_07.pdf
9. (2016) Imparting and (re-)confirming order to the world: authoritative speech traditions and socio-political assemblies in Spiti, Upper Kinnaur and Purang in the past and present. In: Oral Tradition, 30 (2): 319–344; http://journal.oraltradition.org/issues/30ii/jahoda
10. (2016) (with Christiane Kalantari) Kingship in Western Tibet in the 10th and 11th centuries. In: Cahiers d’Extrême Asie, 24 (2015): 77–103.
11. (2015) Socio-economic Organisation in a Border Area of Tibetan Culture: Tabo, Spiti Valley (Himachal Pradesh, India). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 367 pp. https://austriaca.at/7816-3?frames=yes
12. (2012) with Tsering Gyalpo, Christiane Kalantari and Patrick Sutherland; with contributions by Eva Allinger, Hubert Feiglstorfer and Kurt Tropper ’Khor chags / Khorchag / Kuojia si wenshi daguan [Kuojia Monastery: An Overview of Its History and Culture]. lHa sa: Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang, 288 pp. [second, revised edition: Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2015; https://austriaca.at/7668-8?frames=yes]