About the GASCA
The German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie) congregates social anthropologists as well as people and institutions interested in anthropological issues. It was founded in the 1920s, with even older predecessors.
The GASCA devotes itself to the promotion of social anthropological research and teaching and to the distribution of social anthropological knowledge. It is a network of scientific exchange. 35 working groups focus on thematic and regional subdivisions of social anthropology.
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As its major scientific activities the GASCA organizes a biannual congress and publishes the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie│Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ZfE│JSCA). Founded in 1869, the ZfE│JSCA is one of the oldest anthropological journals worldwide. It is co-published with the Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory of Berlin (Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte). The ZfE│JSCA is published in two volumes a year which contain peer reviewed articles in German and English, each of which is accompanied by an English abstract. Online access to the journal is available via JSTOR.
Twice a year the GASCA publishes the Newsletter of the German Anthropological Association (Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie). Besides a thematic focus it contains reports and information from the social anthropological institutes and museums in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The GASCA is a non-profit association. It currently has close to 850 members. The highest governing body of the association is the General Meeting, which convenes biennially. The GASCA is managed by a board of three, and is assisted by an advisory board and an administrator.
The GASCA (DGSKA) is member of the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) and therefore part of a network of national and international associations that aims to promote worldwide communication and cooperation in social anthropology.
News
Info meeting about NFDI on 25.4. 10a.m.
National Research Data Infrastructure: What is it and why does it matter? Digital talk with Text+, NFDI4 Culture, Objects and Memory
Disinvitation of Nancy Fraser at Cologne University
In light of the disinvitation of Nancy Fraser from the Albertus Magnus Professorship we refer to our statement on academic freedom
Statement of the Board on Academic Freedom in Germany
As the board of the GASCA, we observe with great concern that scientists working in Germany feel increasingly restricted in the exercise of their fundamental rights of academic freedom and freedom of opinion.
GASCA 2023 Conference
The next conference will take place in Cologne, probably from 29.9.-2.10.25. The topic will be: “Un/Commoning Anthropology “. The call for workshops will start in summer 2024.
The last conference took place in Munich from 25 – 28 July 2023 on the topic ” Contested Knowledge: Perspectives in Social and Cultural Anthropology”.
Click here to go to our conference homepage. There you can find information about the programme as well as photos, blogs and the keynote speech to watch.
GASCA Notices
Issue 56 of the “Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie” 2023 is out now.
You can download the current as well as older issues in pdf.
Please find them in our online archive.
Thematic and Regional Working Groups
Thematic and Regional Working Groups of the German Anthropological Association offer a forum for a vital exchange on certain topics, aspects and regions. Please find here the guidelines for working groups (PDF).