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.
Andrea Castiglioni is an Associate Professor at Nagoya City University, specializing in early modern Shugendō history, ascetic movements, and body studies. His recent publications include The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions (with Erica Baffelli and Fabio Rambelli, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021); Defining Shugendō: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion (with Fabio Rambelli and Carina Roth, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020); “Reframing the Human-Fish in the Edo and Meiji Periods: Eroticism, Taxidermy, Oracles, and Modernity” ( Journal of Religion in Japan 12, no. 1, 2023); “Būchū kanjō: Secret Dharma Transmission in the Shugendō Mountain-Entry Ritual” (in Fabio Rambelli and Or Porath, eds., Rituals of Initiation and Consecration in Premodern Japan: Power and Legitimacy in Kingship, Religion, and the Arts, De Gruyter, 2022); “The Human-Fish: Animality, Teratology, and Religion in Premodern Japan” ( Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 48, no. 1, 2021); “Devotion in Flesh and Bone: The Mummified Corpses of Mount Yudono Ascetics in the Edo-Period Japan” (Asian Ethnology 78, no. 1, 2019); and “From Your Name. to Shin-Gojira: Spiritual Crisscrossing, Spatial Soteriology, and Catastrophic Identity in Contemporary Japanese Visual Culture” (in Fabio Rambelli, ed., Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan: The Invisible Empire, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).