Centers of civilization

Coordinators:

Andrew Hardy and Catherine Scheer

 

Unit programmes

The Unit programmes are divided into three projects:

  • Proto-urban Sites and Ancient Cities: surveys, archaeological excavations and monumental restoration
  • Urban history, centralization and space management
  • State and dynamics of the peripheries

A description (in french) is available here.

EFEO News
New publication


Arts Asiatiques 78 (2023)

École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris, 2023, 144 pages.

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New Publication

The Holy Island in the Kāverī: a Hagiotopography  
Critical Edition and Translation of the Śrīraṅgamāhātmya

R. Sathyanarayanan, Marzenna Czerniak-Drożdżowicz

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New publication
Kyoto,

Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 32 (2023)
Aspect of Lived Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan
Aspects de la religion vécue dans le Japon de la fin du Moyen Âge et de l'époque prémoderne


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New Publication
Paris, France,

Armand Desbat, Les Grès angkoriens (9e-14e siècle). Caractéristiques, typologie et originesMémoires Archéologiques n° 29, EFEO, 2023, 372 pages.


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Happy New Year 2023
Paris, France,

The École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO - French School of Asian Studies) wishes you a Happy New year 2024

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