Christian Jahoda

Christian Jahoda is a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA), Austrian Academy of Sciences, specializing in Tibetan societies and historical Western Tibet. His work focuses on socio-cultural processes, Buddhist monuments, religious institutions, and the legacy of Austrian geographer Peter Aufschnaiter.

• Projects: Director of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project 'The Scientific Tibet Legacy of Peter Aufschnaiter'; co-leader of 'Early West Tibetan Buddhist Monuments' and 'Performance Traditions in Spiti.'
• Research Areas: Socio-cultural processes in Tibetan-speaking Himalayas, religious institutions, Buddhist monuments, epigraphy, oral traditions, and socio-economic organization.

Recent publications analyze Buddhist architecture, ritual traditions, and socio-political dynamics of pre-modern Western Tibet. He collaborates with international scholars and contributes to interdisciplinary studies on Eurasian communal practices.