Ang Choulean

In this Cambodian name, the surname is Ang. In accordance with Cambodian custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Choulean.

Ang Choulean
Ang Choulean in 2016
Born	(1949-01-01)January 1, 1949 Kampong Khleang Commune (Q56321668), Siem Reap
Nationality	Cambodian
Alma mater	Royal University of Fine Arts, École des Roches
Awards	Fukuoka Prize (2011)

Ang Choulean (Khmer: អាំង ជូលាន; born 1 January 1949) is a Cambodian anthropologist.

Education

Ang Choulean earned a bachelor's degree in Archaeology in 1974 from the Royal University of Fine Arts and a PhD in Anthropology in 1982 from École des Roches in France.

Career

Ang Choulean is a professor of historical anthropology at the Royal University of Fine Arts and former the director of the Department of Culture of APSARA.

Awards

In 2011, Ang Choulean won the Grand Prize of Fukuoka Prize, the second Khmer person after Chheng Phon in 1997 to win the prize.

Honours

• Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd Class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon (2022)

Bibliography

• អាហារនៅជនបទអង្គ័រ/Cuisine rurale d'Angkor: Essai de sociologie culinaire. Yosothor. 2020. ISBN 978-9-924-93940-5.
• Bayon: New Perspectives. River Books Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-588-86040-8.
• Braḥ Liṅg. Reyum Institute of Arts and Culture. 2005. ISBN 978-1-588-86081-1.
• People and Earth. Art Media Resources. 2002. ISBN 978-1-588-86040-8.

External links

• Khmer Spiritual Beliefs Brought to Life in a New Novel
• A Cambodian Anthropologist Explains the Culinary Culture of Angkor
• Preserving Angkor: Interview with Ang Choulean