Research professor Anick Coudart is a French archaeologist and ethno-archaeologist who specializes in prehistoric architecture, and traditional organization of contemporary domestic spaces.
Her recent research involves the following themes: cultural practices versus identity strategy; domestic time and space in the elaboration & transformation of cultural norms; the Neolithic Bandkeramik Longhouses as material, social, and mental metaphor for small-scale sedentary societies; the settlement of the Danubian Bandkeramik Peoples in the Aisne Valley; the epistemology and history of European archaeology; and the place of the gender studies in French archaeology. In close collaboration with other social anthropologists, she has developed research in the Highlands of Papua New-Guinea on traditional dwellings and material culture, highlighting the relationship between dwelling diversity and temporal rhythms of change.
Coudart is a former member of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), of which she served as a senior research director and from which she received a lifetime service medal in 2013. She is a past visiting scholar at Cambridge University, Japan Kyushu University, Japan Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (Kyoto), Germany Saarland University, the Santa Fe Institute, the University of Melbourne, Beijing Normal University, and Institut méditerranéen de recherches avancées (Marseille, France). She is co-director of the project “Bandkeramik Neolithic implantations in the Aisne Valley, France”, part of the Concerted Research Initiative “The Archaeology of the French National territory” of the French Ministries of Research and Culture, the CNRS and the National Institute for Heritage Archaeology (INRAP). She is also a member of the Shishou Development Project in China, Hubei province (ASU/ Development Research Centre of the Chinese State Council/The Global Green Growth Institute). From 1979 to 2002, she was the Publishing Director of the French professional journal "Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie." She is an avid photographer, and she has produced a very large documentation on traditional techniques and material culture around the world (Australia, China, Europe, Greenland, Japan, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Papua New-Guinea, South Africa, South-West of US, Tunisia).
Among her contributions to the field is the introduction of a novel excavation technique, which adds manual synchronous scraping of the sterile soil above the archaeological levels to the mechanical scraping performed by a backhoe.
MAIN Current Research Projects:
US identity versus European culture, or the false reality of an ‘Occidental Culture’ (from 2015).
How current archaeology remodels European history & European identities (from 2014).
The house, a material & mental construct that shows how the cultural norms of a society are maintained, reproduced and transformed (1987-2002, and from 2010).
Documentation (photos, movies and stories) on “Sustainable cultural practices versus political identity strategies” (from 2005): Australia, China, Pre- and Protohistoric Europe, contemporary Europe, Greenland, Japan, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Papua New-Guinea, South Africa, Tunisia, US South-West Natives American.
The settlement of the Neolithic Danubian Bandkeramik peoples in the Aisne Valley, France (from 2003).
Epistemology and History of European Archaeology (from 2003).
Gender Studies in French Archaeology (from 2003).
The China DRC/BNU/US ASU Project 2015, 2016 & 2017).
Her recent research involves the following themes: cultural practices versus identity strategy; domestic time and space in the elaboration & transformation of cultural norms; the Neolithic Bandkeramik Longhouses as material, social, and mental metaphor for small-scale sedentary societies; the settlement of the Danubian Bandkeramik Peoples in the Aisne Valley; the epistemology and history of European archaeology; and the place of the gender studies in French archaeology. In close collaboration with other social anthropologists, she has developed research in the Highlands of Papua New-Guinea on traditional dwellings and material culture, highlighting the relationship between dwelling diversity and temporal rhythms of change.
Coudart is a former member of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), of which she served as a senior research director and from which she received a lifetime service medal in 2013. She is a past visiting scholar at Cambridge University, Japan Kyushu University, Japan Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (Kyoto), Germany Saarland University, the Santa Fe Institute, the University of Melbourne, Beijing Normal University, and Institut méditerranéen de recherches avancées (Marseille, France). She is co-director of the project “Bandkeramik Neolithic implantations in the Aisne Valley, France”, part of the Concerted Research Initiative “The Archaeology of the French National territory” of the French Ministries of Research and Culture, the CNRS and the National Institute for Heritage Archaeology (INRAP). She is also a member of the Shishou Development Project in China, Hubei province (ASU/ Development Research Centre of the Chinese State Council/The Global Green Growth Institute). From 1979 to 2002, she was the Publishing Director of the French professional journal "Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie." She is an avid photographer, and she has produced a very large documentation on traditional techniques and material culture around the world (Australia, China, Europe, Greenland, Japan, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Papua New-Guinea, South Africa, South-West of US, Tunisia).
Among her contributions to the field is the introduction of a novel excavation technique, which adds manual synchronous scraping of the sterile soil above the archaeological levels to the mechanical scraping performed by a backhoe.
MAIN Current Research Projects:
US identity versus European culture, or the false reality of an ‘Occidental Culture’ (from 2015).
How current archaeology remodels European history & European identities (from 2014).
The house, a material & mental construct that shows how the cultural norms of a society are maintained, reproduced and transformed (1987-2002, and from 2010).
Documentation (photos, movies and stories) on “Sustainable cultural practices versus political identity strategies” (from 2005): Australia, China, Pre- and Protohistoric Europe, contemporary Europe, Greenland, Japan, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Papua New-Guinea, South Africa, Tunisia, US South-West Natives American.
The settlement of the Neolithic Danubian Bandkeramik peoples in the Aisne Valley, France (from 2003).
Epistemology and History of European Archaeology (from 2003).
Gender Studies in French Archaeology (from 2003).
The China DRC/BNU/US ASU Project 2015, 2016 & 2017).
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