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
Eine Ethnographic Novel
verfasst von Studierenden des Seminars "Antidiskriminatorische kollaborative Anthropologie zwischen Studierenden und Lehrenden" im SoSe 2024
Der Atlas des Arktischen Permafrosts: Eine Reise durch eisige Welten
16.10.2024, 18:30 Uhr
Naturhistorische Museum Wien
mit: Peter Schweitzer, Alexandra Meyer, Victoria Martin, Andreas Richter, Olga Povoroznyuk, Helena Bergstedt, Susanna Gartler...
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Online Lecture Series of ICC Sophia University and the Free University of Berlin
Hosted by Megha Wadhwa & David H. Slater
online Event
Hier finden sich aktuelle Veranstaltungen der Universität Wien
Jobs
am Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, UniVie
Bewerbungsfrist: 01.09.2024
Hier geht es zu den aktuellen Stellenausschreibungen der Uni Wien.
Calls
EthnoDoks 2024
18.-19.10.2024
organized by CEU and univie
application deadline: 15.08.2024
at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology within the team led by Peter Schweitzer
application deadline: 21.07.2024
established by Editing Press in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics
Deadlines three times a...
