ICAS-GIS Asia 2021 Book Prize: two Inalco researchers rewarded for their books

22 September 2021

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For this third edition of the French book prize, a collaboration between GIS Asie and ICAS (International convention of Asia Scholars), 5 books published between 2018 and 2020 have been shortlisted from the 21 in competition.
Prix ICAS-Asie 2021
Prix ICAS-Asie 2021 © ICAS‎

The 2021 edition of the Prix ICAS-Gis Asie has rewarded two Inalco researchers:

- a special mention has been awarded to the book Nomad's land. Eleveurs, animaux et paysage chez les peuples mongols (Zones Sensibles, 2019) by Charlotte Marchina, anthropologist and lecturer in Mongolian language and civilization.

- the book Japanoise - Extrémismes et entropie (Les Presses du réel, 2019) by Jérémy Corral, doctoral student at Inalco and researcher attached to IFRAE, was also singled out.


Charlotte Marchina is an anthropologist, lecturer in Mongolian language and civilization and head of the Mongolian section at Inalco. Her research focuses on nomadism and the relationship between herders and animals in Mongolia and southern Siberia. She previously published with Marc Alaux Proverbs & sayings from Mongolia (Géorama, 2018) and the translation of her work Nomad's land has just been published in English (Nomadic pastoralism among the Mongol herders. Multispecies and spatial ethnography in Mongolia and Transbaikalia, Amsterdam University Press, 2021).


Jeremy Corral is a doctoral student at Inalco, attached to IFRAE where he is completing a thesis on the beginnings of electroacoustic music in Japan, with a particular focus on the production of NHK's experimental music studio. Awarded a Canon Foundation scholarship in 2016, he conducts field research at Ōsaka University of the Arts on local sources. He has been teaching since 2019 at Inalco and in 2021 at Tōkyō University of Foreign Studies. His main areas of interest are contemporary music history, alternative cultures and Japanese cultural history.

Discover: Researcher portrait: Jeremy Corral - directed by Amandine Dazevedo (BULAC) - 02/25/2021 (Maj 03/14/2021)


The ICAS Biennial Book Prize (IBP), established by ICAS in 2003, rewards outstanding publications in the field of Asian studies. Organized every two years, in conjunction with the ICAS conference, the IBP has grown from a small experiment (50 books and 5 theses in 2005) to the leading book prize in the field of Asian studies, with 600 books and 150 theses submitted for the 2019 edition. Since 2017, IBP has honored publications, in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish (in addition to the original English edition).