Anick Coudart
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Phone: 480-965-7144
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Arizona State University School of Human Evolution and Social Change PO Box 872402 Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
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Anick Coudart has been a research professor at Arizona State University since 2013, following her appointment as an adjunct professor with the ASU Department of Anthropology (1999-2012). She is a French archaeologist, ethnographer and ethno-archaeologist who specializes in Europena Neolithic domectic houses, and traditional organization of contemporary traditional domestic spaces around the world. She got her doctorate in 1987 from the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) in prehistoric ethnology – cum laude: "Architecture et société néolithique. Uniformité et variabilité, fonction et style de l’architecture dans l’approche des communautés du Néolithique danubien" ("Architecture and Neolithic Society: uniformity, variability, function and style in the architecture of the Danubian Neolithic").
Coudart is also an associate researcher with the Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l’Océanie of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseille, France. In addition, she is still a co-director of the project “Bandkeramik Neolithic implantations in the Aisne Valley, France” (French Ministries of Research and Culture, CNRS and the National Institute for Heritage Archaeology (INRAP), and 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).
Her recent research involves the following themes: 1) Cultural practices versus identity strategy; domestic time and space in the elaboration & transformation of cultural norms; 2) The Neolithic Bandkeramik Longhouses as material, social, and mental metaphor for small-scale sedentary societies; 3) The settlement of the Danubian Bandkeramik peoples in the North of France; 4) The epistemology and history of European archaeology; 5) and The place of the gender studies in French archaeology.
She is a very 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: U.S. identity versus European culture, or the false reality of an ‘Occidental Culture’ (from 2015). How current archaeology remodels European history and European identities (from 2014). The house, a material and mental construct that shows how the cultural norms of a society are maintained, reproduced and transformed (1987-2002, and from 2010). In close collaboration with other French social anthropologists (1982-2009), she also 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. Also 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 and 2017).
Ph.D. Prehistoric Ethnology (Cum Laude), University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) 1987. Dissertation: Architecture et société néolithique. Uniformité et variabilité, fonction et style de l’architecture dans l’approche des communautés du Néolithique danubien (Architecture and Neolithic Society: uniformity, variability, function and style in the architecture of the Danubian Neolithic).
