Member of SCNAT

The umbrella organisation of anthropologists in Switzerland represents the interests of the discipline to the general public and the authorities. Its members are mainly composed of experts with a focus on natural science.

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Contact

Swiss Society for Anthropology (SSA)
c/o Dr Jocelyne Desideri
University of Geneva
ARCAN
30, Quai Ernest-Ansermet
1211 Genève 4
Switzerland

The Swiss Society for Anthropology was founded in 1920. It is part of the Platform Biology of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT).

Close contacts are maintained with neighbouring disciplines such as palaeontology, human anatomy, zoology, ecology, anthropology, archeology, forensic science, history, social history and history of medicine.

SSA organizes an annual general meeting in Switzerland, which is followed by a scientific discussion.


The SGA/SSA agrees with the SCNAT statement and stands in solidarity with the students and academics who are peacefully demonstrating in Iran for freedom and equal rights. To the statement. Find a petition letter to President Biden urging support for Iranian students protesting dictatorship here.


The SGA/SSA stands in solidarity with the academics in Ukraine and endorses the notification of the SCNAT with reference to the statement of the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA).