Anthropological Survey of India has initiated the International School of Anthropology (ISA), as a programme of its ongoing activities, on a continuous basis. This is an effort towards institutionalizing the activity of imparting training in advanced Anthropological methods and techniques for the use of one and all, be they researchers, planners, administrators or for that matter any one of a group or an institution that realises the need to gain an insight and expertise in to one or more aspects of cultural or biological Anthropology.

The International School of Anthropology, aims to train through a battery of short and long-term courses, at all levels, with a design that meets the specific requirements of the trainees. Training would be imparted by a team of national and international faculty, who are known authorities in their respective spheres of knowledge activity. The state of the art infrastructural facilities that are available with the An.S.I's Southern Regional Centre at Mysore would be made accessible to the faculty as well as the trainees to pursue their activities. It is also being envisaged that that the international faculty, who is willing to stay for a minimum period of two months with the Centre would teach as well as enter in to a collaborative research activity with the An.S.I's researchers.