Professor Grégory Delaplace

Grégory Delaplace is a professor in the anthropology of religions at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, and a member of the CRCAO. His research in Mongolia is based on long-term fieldwork with Dörvöd herders and city-dwellers of the far Northwestern Uvs province. He has worked on funerary rituals, relationship with dead people and manifestations of the invisible (L’invention des morts. Sépultures, fantômes et photographie en Mongolie contemporaine, EPHE-CEMS, Nord-Asie 1, 2009), on conceptions and practices of the border (Frontier Encounters. Knowledge and practice at the Russian, Chinese, and Mongolian border, Open Book Publishers, 2012), and more recently on wrestling, card games, and the micro-politics of home-making. He received the CNRS Bronze medal in 2015, became a junior fellow of the French Academic institute in 2017, and was the editor of the French journal of anthropology L’Homme between 2020 and 2024.