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1934–2014 Algeria
Fanny Colonna (1934 - 18 November 2014) was a French-Algerian Sociologist and Anthropologist. She was also a former Professor at Tizi Ouzou University
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I had grown up in a village, Meskiana, and that rural life had deeply shaped me.
Religion was omnipresent, or it played no role at all in social construction.
I am not talking here about the researchers, to the extreme modesty, the simplicity of the character, his self-effacing end.
It is a very special historical destiny, both received but above all chosen.
His memory survives in the north of the massif but hardly any further.
Each book has its own style of writing, more or less spontaneous, depending on the subject, the sources, and the anticipated readers.
I don't have roots but attachments, loyalties, and loyalties.
The Aurès is not at all what one imagines from the outside!
With this book, somewhere between a portrait and a novel, you depart somewhat from the pure sociological approach to which you have accustomed us.
Despite the production, from the end of the first third of the 19th century, of works on religion, the authors seemed to oscillate mainly between two interpretations of North African societies.
This last one seems to have broadened my audience, and I very much hope for a co-publication in Algeria..
If we hadn't known, we would never have guessed that he wasn't from around here.
My father wanted me to learn Arabic, so I attended a Qur’anic school for a while during the holidays, before entering high school.
This local social history remains to be done, and that's kind of the point of this book.
I think he wasn't unique and that over the years, we'll find lots of Baptistes in various regions of the country.
I think it was a beautiful and unexpected meeting, between two men fairly free from prejudice and capable of physical and moral prowess.
I worked for twenty years in this region, mainly in the south, without ever hearing a local mountaineer spontaneously talk to me about him.
I loved the kuttāb; I no longer have my childhood lawḥ (tablet), but I bought one for a dinar during my first fieldwork in the Aurès it appears as a frontispiece in Les Versets.
This one took as long to produce, even longer, given its relative thinness, than exclusively scientific research.
Twenty years of age separated them and neither seems to have found any treasure.
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