Jacques Legrand (Mongolist)

Jacques Legrand was President of the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales from March 2005 for a term of 4 years.

[1] During this period, from 1986 to 1989, he taught the civilization of East Asia at the university, focusing primarily on the cultures and history of Mongolia, China and Japan.

[2] Legrand has studied Mongol life from the dawn of man, noting that the Neolithic saw the practice of agriculture, fishing and breeding, whilst the Bronze Age initiated an evolution in the direction of a more and more exclusive pastoralism in the Mongolian plains, creating some marked paradoxes as it evolved.

[2] He has published numerous publications under the auspices of UNESCO,[3] and the International Institute for the Study of Nomadic Civilizations in Ulaanbaatar, which he chairs.

[1] He has collaborated on numerous books, both scholarly publications and general works, and also on the film Urga, by Nikita Mikhalkov (1991).