Welcome to the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Social and cultural anthropology adopts a comparative perspective to focus on the variety of forms that human coexistence takes in various places and at various times. In the past the field's attention was primarily given to small-scale societies outside of the industrial world. Nowadays, the focus of research is frequently on the processes related to colonialism, globalisation and the worldwide flows of migration seen in the present day, for example the redefinition of identities and cultural distinctions. The classical themes of local cultural interactions, organisational forms and world views are simultaneously developed, and intensive field research remains the field's defining characteristic in connection with the "participant observation" method.
Beyond scientific research, the practical application of cultural and social anthropological expertise is useful and sought after in many fields, including refugee work and integration, development cooperation, international missions, cultural mediation, exhibition and media work, tourism, and health care systems.

 News & Events

News
 
Job Opportunities
 

within the framework of the new interdisciplinary FWF doc.funds program "The Dynamics of Change and the Logics of Transformation: State, Society, and Economy at Critical Junctures"

Application deadline: 12.04.2024

Presse & Medien
 

Igor Eberhard im Interview

16.03.2024, Schwäbische.de

Neuerscheinung
 

Zwischen Demos, Kosmos und Globus. IWM-Vorlesungen 2023

Seyla Benhabib

CALL
 

Die Bewerbung für Lehraufträge ist bis 17.04.2024 möglich

Neuerscheinung
 

Hawaii’s Territorial Years 1900-1959

Hermann Mückler


 Event Tips

„Am Puls“-Wissenschaftstalk mit Denise Trippold und Rupert Lanzenberger

16.04.2024, 18:30 Uhr

Kabarett Simpl

Ausstellung im Gedenken an die Feuerland-Expeditionen von P. Martin Gusinde SVD vor 100 Jahren

Eröffnung: 07.04.2024, 16 Uhr

Missionshaus St....

Kontinuität von Antimuslimischem Rassismus in Österreich

19.-20.04.2024

Wien

in Kooperation zwischen dem Institut für Orientalistik und der...


 Jobs

im VW-Forschungsprojekt „Transformationswissen für die Katastrophenhilfe“

Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Verbundprojekt mit der Hochschule...

im Bereich der Sozialen Arbeit / angewandten Sozial-, Bildungs- oder Kulturwissenschaften

Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Coburg

Deadline:...

within the framework of the new interdisciplinary FWF doc.funds program "The Dynamics of Change and the Logics of Transformation: State, Society, and...


 Calls

special issue of UXUC – User Experience and Urban Creativity Journal

Deadline: 08.04.2024

Marie Jahoda Summer School of Sociology

08.-12.07.2024

Applications until 29.03.2024

established by Editing Press in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics

Deadlines three times a...