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
Kyoto,


Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 29 (2020)
Mythologie japonaises, Japanese Mythologies
François Macé et Alain Rocher (ed.)
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New publication
Paris, France,


Les scolastiques indiennes : Genèses, développements, interactions, Émilie Aussant et Gérard Colas (éd.), Études thématiques 32, Paris, EFEO, 2020, 326 pages.

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Publication on line ''History, Archaeology, Society. Franco-Chinese Academic Lectures''
Beijing, China,

As part of its collaboration with the Max Weber Stiftung, the EFEO Centre in Beijing is making its series of bilingual booklets "Histoire, Archéologie, Société. Conférences académiques franco-chinoises" [History, Archaeology, Society. Franco-Chinese Academic Lectures] on the open-access German platform "CrossAsia". All of these conferences (17 issues to date) will soon be available for consultation and downloading.
New publication
Paris, France,

Henri Marchal, un architecte à Angkor, collection of texts by Henri Marchal with contributions from Olivier de Bernon, Éric Bourdonneau, Lucie Labbé, Christophe Pottier, and Isabelle Poujol, and a preface by Christophe Marquet, Coéditions, EFEO / Magellan & Cie, 2020, 288 pages.

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New publication
Paris, France,

Une philosophie de la parole
L'Enquête sur la connaissance verbale (Śābdanirṇaya) de Prakāśātman, maître advaitin du Xe siècle
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