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
within the ERC project “Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructures and Sustainable Northern Communities” (INFRANORTH)
Report on the RAI conference panel “Critical play: Smartphones as a mode of creative engagement with crisis” during the RAI Film Festival 2021
by Sanderien Verstappen
Digital Ethnography Initiative-Blog, 02.04.2021
20.-21.04.2021
The inaugural conference of MemAct!
mit einer Keynote von Agnieszka Pasieka
online event
Leichen im Keller. Menschliche Überreste zwischen Rückgabe und Verbleib.
Uneingeschränkter Zugang vom 26.03.2021 bis 24.03.2022
Janina Kehr im Interview
04.03.2021, der Standard
Tips from our partners
Hier finden sich aktuelle Veranstaltungen der Universität Wien
Job Opportunities
within the ERC project “Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructures and Sustainable Northern Communities” (INFRANORTH)
at the Université libre de Bruxelles Rice-Human Relatedness in Laos
Deadline: 20.04.2021
Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University
Deadline: 16.04.2021
Calls
for a Special Issue entitled “Demographic Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Consequences”
Deadline: 31.05.2021
Die sozialen Folgen der Corona-Pandemie
Deadline: 30.06.2022
Digitaler Wandel muss aktiv gestaltet werden
Deadline: 30.06.2021
