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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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In the Aurès, he played a decisive role in the summer pilgrimage ritual, in the cult of the minor saints, and in the sacrifice that was then performed.
He lived there for 70 years and people speak of him with amused indulgence, which says a lot about the tolerance of a society that is considered closed and rigid.
His mother was indeed Chaouia but he does not have the same aura because his life was rather deviant with regard to local values (woman-lover and probably not very sober, unlike his father).
They must have met in the mountains by chance perhaps, the first time, both searching for treasure, a sport common in the massif, for which one needs strong legs, imagination and physical courage.
I think that indeed, the Aurès has been for me since 1973.
I had the places, the toponyms, the people also in memory and in my imagination.
Those who knew him, in the north, are now between 70 and 80 years old, so I was ultimately lucky and also helped by young colleagues to find their traces.
The Aurès is the native country of my mother, whose family arrived in Chélia and then Khenchela, around 1875.
I have been trying for some time now, for example in Les versets de l'invincibilité (1995), or in Récits de la province égyptienne (2005), to free the actors from the matrix of scientific discourse.
As for Masqueray, Montagne, and Maunier prominent names in the early sociology of the Maghreb they belonged to the dominant theoretical tradition of Durkheimian sociology in the nascent social sciences.
Too honest as observers to deny the importance of Islam, they nevertheless produced theoretical constructions that shifted the focus to other elements of social organization (the city, intertribal pacts, customary law).
Serving as arbiters among the "secular," acephalous tribes, where power is by nature unstable, and as mediators with universal Islam, the city, and the Prince, as descendants of the Prophet and “incarnate Word,” that is, carriers of the uncreated Word of God, the Qur’an.
I attended the reformist Médersa in my village, and there I clearly saw the difference with the Qur’anic school
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