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CRCAO member - Mongolian studies Team

Charlotte Marchina

Associate Professor, Inalco

Presentation

My research in anthropology focuses on the relations that humans have with their animals and their environment within Mongolian pastoral systems. I initially focused on the ways in which herders rely on the agency of their animals in their herding practices, from a comparative perspective between the Halh of Mongolia and the Buryats of Aga in Transbaikalia (Russia). In recent years, my work has centred on Mongolia and has also examined the perception and impacts of environmental change. I maintain a comparative dimension in my approach through fieldwork carried out amongst herders from other ethnic groups (Kazakhs), or living in diverse ecological and climatic conditions (the steppe, the Gobi Desert and the high mountains of the Altai). My work is characterised by a high degree of interdisciplinary openness, through regular collaboration with colleagues specialising in archaeology and biogeochemistry on the one hand, and ethology on the other, in order to deepen and refine the study of pastoral mobility over the long term and the complex intertwining of human and animal behaviours that lies at the heart of pastoral systems.

Research thematics

  • Pastoral mobility of contemporary nomadic herders, and more broadly since the Bronze Age
  • Mongolian ethno-ethology: herder-animal relations, including communicative and cooperative dimensions, which draw on the herders’ ethological knowledge
  • Perceptions of environmental change and its impacts on pastoral systems

CRCAO research programmes

Teachings

  • Mongolian Grammar (1st year)
  • Mongolian Grammar (2nd year)
  • Contemporary Mongolia (1st-3rd years)
  • Mongolian history and cultures (1st-2nd years)

Publications (HAL Archive Ouverte)

  • Charlotte Marchina, Michèle Cazaubon, Verena Buchinger, Robin Mesnage. Case report: marked improvement of lipedema through a medically supervised fasting intervention. Medical Reports, 2026, pp.100505. ⟨10.1016/j.hmedic.2026.100505⟩. ⟨hal-05776000⟩

  • Charlotte Marchina, Antoine Zazzo, Nicolas Lazzerini, Aurélie Coulon, Sébastien Lepetz, et al.. Kazakh Variations for Herders and Animals in the Mongolian Altai: Methodological Contributions to the Study of Nomadic Pastoralism. Nomadic Peoples, 2022, 26 (1), pp.33-60. ⟨10.3197/np.2022.260103⟩. ⟨hal-03864602v2⟩

  • Nicolas Lazzerini, Antoine Zazzo, Aurélie Coulon, Charlotte Marchina, Noost Bayarkhuu, et al.. Season of death of domestic horses deposited in a ritual complex from Bronze Age Mongolia Insights from oxygen isotope time-series in tooth enamel. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2020, 32, pp.102387. ⟨10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102387⟩. ⟨hal-02865051⟩

  • William Taylor, Marcello Fantoni, Charlotte Marchina, Sébastien Lepetz, Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, et al.. Horse sacrifice and butchery in Bronze Age Mongolia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2020, 31, pp.102313. ⟨10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102313⟩. ⟨hal-02530638⟩

  • Nicolas Lazzerini, Antoine Zazzo, Aurélie Coulon, Tsagaan Turbat, Charlotte Marchina, et al.. Date of death of domestic caprines assessed by oxygen isotopic analysis of developing molars: Implications for deciphering the calendar of pastoral activities in prehistory. Journal of Archaeological Science, 2020, 120, pp.105163. ⟨10.1016/j.jas.2020.105163⟩. ⟨mnhn-02934319⟩

  • Nicolas Lazzerini, Aurélie Coulon, Laurent Simon, Charlotte Marchina, Bayarkhuu Noost, et al.. Grazing high and low: Can we detect horse altitudinal mobility using high‐resolution isotope ( δ 13 C and δ 15 N values) time series in tail hair? A case study in the Mongolian Altai. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2019, 33 (19), pp.1512-1526. ⟨10.1002/rcm.8496⟩. ⟨mnhn-02934344⟩

  • Charlotte Marchina. Sandrine Ruhlmann, L’Appel du bonheur. Le partage alimentaire mongol. Gradhiva : revue d'histoire et d'archives de l'anthropologie , 2017, pp.228-229. ⟨10.4000/gradhiva.3490⟩. ⟨hal-03956067⟩

  • Charlotte Marchina, Sébastien Lepetz, Claude Salicis, Jérôme Magail. The skull on the hill. Anthropological and osteological investigation of contemporary horse skull ritual practices in central Mongolia (Arkhangai province). Anthropozoologica, 2017, 52 (2), pp.171-183. ⟨10.5252/az2017n2a3⟩. ⟨hal-02116046⟩

  • Charles Stépanoff, Charlotte Marchina, Camille Fossier, Bureau Nicolas. Animal Autonomy and Intermittent Coexistences: North Asian Modes of Herding. Current Anthropology, 2017, 58 (1), ⟨10.1086/690120⟩. ⟨hal-01462313⟩

  • Charlotte Marchina. Pesteil Philippe, Bianquis Isabelle (eds.), Déprise et emprise du rural. Regards croisés sur les dynamiques sociales. Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 2015, 46, pp.228 - 229. ⟨10.4000/emscat.2690⟩. ⟨hal-03956092⟩

  • Charlotte Marchina, Laura Nikolov. Gardelle Linda, Pasteurs nomades de Mongolie : des sociétés nomades et des États. Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 2011, 42, ⟨10.4000/emscat.1913⟩. ⟨hal-03956182⟩

  • Charlotte Marchina. Carole Ferret, Une civilisation du cheval. Cahiers du Monde russe, 2010, 51 (4), pp.830-833. ⟨10.4000/monderusse.7455⟩. ⟨hal-03956189⟩

  • Annabel Vallard, Charlotte Marchina. La question de la diversité dans les relations interspécifiques : quelques objets et méthodes à partir de l’Asie. Les rencontres de l’IFRAE, Dec 2024, Paris, France. ⟨hal-04873931⟩

  • Charlotte Marchina. La bosse de l’élevage de chameaux : Un savoir‑faire délicat en Mongolie contemporaine. Damien Agut-Labordère; Bérangère Redon. Les vaisseaux du désert et des steppes : Les camélidés dans l’Antiquité (Camelus dromedarius et Camelus bactrianus), MOM Éditions, pp.265-281, 2020. ⟨halshs-02534234⟩

  • Charlotte Marchina. 'Common Property beyond this Fence': Land Privatisation and the Adaption of Pastoralism among the Aga Buryats. Ines Stolpe; Judith Nordby; Ulrike Gonzales. Mongolian Responses to Globalisation Processes , 13, EB-Verlag, pp.45-71, 2017, Bonner Asienstudien, 978-3-86893-233-1. ⟨hal-01522336⟩

  • Charlotte Marchina. ‘Follow the Horse’: The Complexities of Collaboration between the Lasso-pole Horse (uurgach mor’) and his Rider among Mongolian Horse Herders. Dona Davis; Anita Maurstad. The Meaning of Horses : Biosocial Encounters, Routledge, 2016, 9781138914551. ⟨hal-01374914⟩

  • Camille Fossier, Charlotte Marchina. Study of Human-Animal Interactions in Siberian Pastoral Systems via GIS (Geographic Information Systems). V.N. Davydov (В. Н. Давыдов); D.V. Arzjutov (Д. В. Арзютов). Грани социального: Антропологические перспективы исследования социальных отношений и культуры/Dimensions of social life: Anthropological perspectives on social relations and culture, 4, MAĖ RAN (МАЭ РАН), pp.613-625, 2014, Сибирский сборник, 978-5-88431-260-9. ⟨hal-01374929⟩

  • Charlotte Marchina. Le pastoralisme de Mongolie. Charles Stépanoff, Carole Ferret, Gaëlle Lacaze, Julien Thorez. Nomadismes d'Asie centrale et septentrionale, Armand Colin, pp.43-47, 2013, 978-2-200-27537-2. ⟨hal-01522337⟩

  • Charlotte Marchina. L'élevage mongol à plusieurs espèces. Charles Stépanoff, Carole Ferret, Gaëlle Lacaze, Julien Thorez. Nomadismes d'Asie centrale et septentrionale, Armand Colin, pp.172-175, 2013, 978-2-200-27537-2. ⟨hal-01522338⟩

  • Charlotte Marchina. La lente décollectivisation chez les Bouriates d'Aga, Russie. Charles Stépanoff, Carole Ferret, Gaëlle Lacaze, Julien Thorez. Nomadismes d'Asie centrale et septentrionale, Armand Colin, pp.248-250, 2013, 978-2-200-27537-2. ⟨hal-01522339⟩

  • Charlotte Marchina, Nomindari Shagdarsuren. Le « mongol bichig », une écriture millénaire en mode survie. 2021. ⟨hal-03956233⟩

  • Charlotte Marchina. Où est le « chez-soi» des éleveur·ses nomades de Mongolie ?. 2020, pp.13-15. ⟨hal-03956275⟩

  • Charlotte Marchina, Julie Blanquefort, Zola-Ludivine Luvualo, Cassandre Randrianaina, Dytha Franciska, et al.. Etudes mongoles. Entretien scientifique avec Charlotte Marchina (INALCO, Paris). 2016. ⟨medihal-01326138⟩

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