The International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment received a grant of nearly € 1.5 million from the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science. more

Professor Emeritus Franz von Benda-Beckmann has passed away. The members of the MPI for Social Anthropology express their profound sorrow at the death of an accomplished scholar and revered colleague. more

On 27th November, Chris Hann gave the “2012 Stirling Lecture” at the University of Kent at Canterbury more

The Department ‘Integration and Conflict’ at the MPI for Social Anthropology (Prof. Günther Schlee) and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zurich (Prof. Peter Finke) launch a new “Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia” more

Joseph Long, Research Fellow at the Siberian Studies Centre, has been awarded the J.B. Donne Essay Prize on the Anthropology of Art of the Royal Anthropological Institute more

An international workshop on "World Heritage on the Ground: ethnographic perspectives" focused on fieldwork-centered questions of UNESCO World Heritage more

Im Rahmen des diesjährigen Oktobermusikfests in München hat Chris Hann am 17. Oktober 2012 mit einem Vortrag zur Veranstaltungsreihe 'Chaos und Ordnung' beigetragen. more

Stephen Shennan will lecture on „Patterns of long-term change in the European Neolithic“ to mark the opening of the new International Max Planck Research School for the Anthropology, Archaeology and History of Eurasia on 15 October. more

Presentation of the paper ‘Sons of Soil, Sons of Steel’ by Andrew Sanchez and Christian Strümpell on September 19th marks the launch of the new research group ‘Industry and Inequality in Eurasia’. more

With the appointment of Daria Sambuk as Coordinator and the selection of the first cohort of PhD students, major steps have been taken toward the formal launch of the IMPRS ANARCHIE. more