scientific research

 The faculty of the Department possesses three outstanding strengths: academic rigor, practical application, and internationalization, which are comprehensively demonstrated in its research, training, and international cooperation activities and results.
With their diverse expertise, strong foreign language skills, extensive international experience, and practical knowledge of Vietnam, the faculty members of the Department are always at the forefront of research on many scientific, interdisciplinary, and practically valuable issues.
The faculty in the Department focuses on key specialized areas of Anthropology:

• History of Anthropology
• Ethnic anthropology, ethnic cultural issues, ethnic relations, and ethnic policy.
• Political Anthropology
• Urban Anthropology
• Anthropology
• Developmental Anthropology
• Economic Anthropology
• Environmental anthropology
• Anthropology of Images
• Art anthropology
• Linguistics and Writing Anthropology
• Anthropology of cultural heritage and cultural preservation...

• Researching theoretical and methodological issues in the study of religion:
• Methods of studying religion.
• The origin, nature, and function of religion
• Religious forms throughout history, the structure of religion
• Different approaches in religious studies
• Research on world and Vietnamese religions:
• History and development of world religions
• The process of introduction and development of world religions in Vietnam.
• The doctrines, scriptures, and organizations of world religions.
• History and the process of formation and development of indigenous religions in Vietnam.
• The doctrines and organization of indigenous religions in Vietnam.
• Learn about the various forms of indigenous Vietnamese beliefs: ancestor worship, Mother Goddess worship, worship of the village tutelary deity, and the worship of other gods.
• The transformation of certain forms of religious belief in Vietnam today: some issues to be raised.
• Religion, beliefs, and social life

• The relationship between religion and other areas of social life: politics, culture, art, etc.
• Religious ethics and the influence of religious ethics on contemporary Vietnamese social ethics.
• Religious resources and the development of religious resources in Vietnam.
• Religious policy and management of religious activities in Vietnam.
• The application of religion in social life
• Beliefs and spiritual and cultural life of the Vietnamese people
  - Religious and spiritual festivals

• The faculty members of the Department have led and participated in numerous national-level and Hanoi National University-level research projects on ethnic issues, land, livelihoods, migration, conservation, and development in Vietnam and the region.
  By creating and fostering a professional, dynamic, open, and creative academic environment, many valuable scientific works have been published by the Faculty's lecturers both domestically and internationally. The Faculty of Anthropology and Religious Studies' international publication rate in recent years has consistently accounted for a significant portion of the University's total international publications. In recent years alone, the Faculty has published a series of reference books and monographs in both Vietnamese and English. The results of scientific research are used by the Faculty's lecturers to train undergraduate and postgraduate students, and to advise government agencies and international organizations on solving many problems arising from social practices in various regions across the country, especially in ethnic minority areas, mountainous regions, and areas with inter-religious communities.
• Nguyen Truong Giang, Transformation of Ethnic Landscapes in the Ca Mau Peninsula under the Impact of Climate Change and Salinity (Co-editor), Social Sciences Publishing House, 2024, 300 pages
• Nguyen Truong Giang, Some Basic and Urgent Issues Concerning Ethnic Minorities in China and Southeast Asia (co-authored), National University Publishing House, 2019, 300 pages.
• Nguyen Truong Giang, Terraced Fields in Vietnam - Conservation and Sustainable Development (monograph), National Political Publishing House, Hanoi, 2015, 335 pages. (Monographs: Terraced Fields in Vietnam, Conservation and Sustainable Development. National Political Publishing, 333p, National Political Publishing House ISBN: 978-604-57-1364-8).
• Nguyen Truong Giang, "Keeping the old, adding the new as property for future generations" (Ethnographic and anthropological monograph on the Ta Oi people in A Luoi district, Thua Thien Hue province), Hanoi National University Publishing, 2016, 205 pages. (Monograph: Keeping tradition, extra modern as property for next generation (ethnographic and anthropological monograph on Ta Oi, A Luoi district, Thua Thien Hue) Hanoi National University Publishing, 2016, 205p, ISBN: 978-604-62-5386-0).
• Nguyen Truong Giang, Cultural Diversity: Lessons from Stories (reference book, co-authored), The Gioi Publishing House, 2016, 60 pages.
• Multiple authors (2014), Some issues concerning the history and theory of anthropology, Tri Thuc Publishing House.
• Dinh Hong Hai (2014), Symbolic Studies: Some Theoretical Approaches, The World Publishing House.
• Nguyen Van Suu (2014), Industrialization, urbanization and livelihood changes in the suburbs of Hanoi, Tri Thuc Publishing House.
• Multiple authors (2015), Development Anthropology: History, Theory and Practical Tools, Knowledge Publishing House.
• Pham Quang Minh, Nguyen Van Suu, Ien Ang, Gay Hawkins (2016), Globalization and Urban Transformation in Contemporary Vietnam, Tri Thuc Publishing House.
• Pham Quang Minh, Nguyen Van Suu, Ien Ang, Gay Hawkins (2016), Globalization, Modernity and Urban Change in Asian Cities. Knowledge Publishing House.
• Nguyen Van Suu, Nguyen Van Huy, Lam Ba Nam, Vuong Xuan Tinh (2016), Anthropology in Vietnam: Some historical, research and training issues, Tri Thuc Publishing House.
• Vu Van Chung, (2021) “Baha'i religion in community education in Vietnam”, Review of international geographical education
• Lam Minh Chau (2017), Innovation, market economy and modernization, Hanoi Publishing House.
• Lam Minh Chau (2021) “Freedom under Paramountcy: Multifunctional Traders as Active Moral Agents in Late-socialist Vietnam”, Anthropological Quarterly, 94(3), 473-504.
• Trinh Thi Lan (2017) Rituals of the Ha Nhi people in Bat Xat district, Lao Cai province today (monograph), Fine Arts Publishing House, Hanoi.
• Hong Hai Dinh, Liam C. Kelley (2021) “Competing Imagined Ancestries: The Lac Viet, the Vietnamese, and the Zhuang” in the book Vietnam at the Vanguard: New Perspectives Across Time, Space, and Community, Springer.
• Tran Thi Kim Oanh, "Buddhism in Hoa Binh Province and its Activities to Care for the Material and Spiritual Lives of Ethnic Minority People" in "Buddhist Activities of the Vietnam Buddhist Association in Hoa Binh Province in the Context of International Integration," Social Sciences Publishing House, 2021, ISBN: 978-604-308-505-1. Monograph.
• Tran Thi Kim Oanh, The Engaged Spirit of Vietnamese Buddhist Women Past and Present, Social Sciences Publishing House, 2024, ISBN: 978-604-366-250-6. (Monograph Chapter)
• Nguyen Thu Huong (2022) “The case of Dạ Thảo Phương and Sexual Violence in Vietnam over the Past Two Decades”, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 17 (4) DOI:10.1525/vs.2022.17.4.58
• Nguyen Van Suu (2022) “Land in Contemporary Vietnam”, printed in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam, ISBN 9781138792258, Routledge.
• Nguyen Vu Hoang (2023) “Trapped within the White Frame: Vietnamese Americans in Post-Katrina New Orleans”, printed in Linda Ho Peche, Alex-Thai Vo and Tuong Vu (Eds.) Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies: History, Community, and Memory, Temple University Press, pp.178-198.