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.
About - IKEDA Takumi
Ikeda Takumi 池田巧 is a Professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities (Zinbun) at Kyoto University. His research encompasses Tibetan and Chinese linguistics, in particular the descriptive analysis and historical study of the Mu-nya language which belongs to the Qiangic branch of Tibeto-Burman languages and is spoken in southwest China. He is the compiler of Grammatical Phenomena of Sino-Tibetan Languages (6 vols.) published by Zinbun. His publications include “Directional Prefixes in Mu-nya” (2022) and a chapter on Sven Hedin’s sketches of Tibetan expeditions during 1906–7 included in The Explorer Sven Hedin and Kyoto University: Central Asia Fosters East-West Cultural Exchange (Kyoto University Press; Trans Pacific Press, 2019). He is also the coeditor (with Iwao Kazushi) of Chibetto no rekishi to shakai チベットの歴史と社会 [History and Society of Tibet] (2 vols., Rinsen Shoten, 2021). He is currently conducting a collaborative research project on Tibetology at Zinbun with mid-career and younger researchers in Japan.
