The catalog of EFEO Publications includes works on a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (archaeology, history, anthropology, literature, philology, etc.), centered on Asia, from India to Japan.
These publications address both specialists, and a wider public interested in Asian civilizations and societies.
Christof Zotter studied Indology and Ethnology at the University of Leipzig and received his doctoral degree from Heidelberg University for a thesis on text and praxis of the Brahmanical initiation ritual in Nepal. Currently, he works as a researcher and head of the editorial program of the Research Unit “Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal”, Heidelberg Academy of Science and Humanities, and conducts research on the history of ascetical traditions in Nepal.