Tassadit Yacine
Tassadit Yacine-Titouh (Arabic: تسعديت ياسين; Tachelhit: ⵜⴰⵙⵄⴷⵉⵜ ⵢⴰⵙⵉⵏ, romanized: Tasɛdit Yasin; born 11 November 1949 in Boudjellil, Algeria) is an Algerian anthropologist specialising in Berber culture.
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[edit]Discussion with Tassadit Yacine, conducted by Maria-Angels Roque
[edit]A Conversation with Tassadit Yacine, by Maria-Angels Roque
- Researchers spend a large part of their time objectifying others without ever questioning their own objectification.
- For how can one objectify others if one does not attempt to objectify one's own history, one's own subjectivity.
- Anthropology must therefore go beyond the divide between objectivism and subjectivism.
- Just as it must also go beyond the determinism of structures.
- Structures exist, of course; they are structured and structuring, of course, but they cannot make explicit all the behaviors and attitudes of social agents.
- Social agents cannot be a pure product of a single structural determinism without taking into account historical and political contingencies, emotions, and free will.
- Being precisely subject and object, this return to reflexivity has opened up avenues for me to understand a generation of men and women with similar dispositions.
- Who have managed to achieve important positions in the scientific, cultural.
- They are said to be "miracle survivors, but the sociological miracle has a history, a social and political genesis that must be re-examined.
- The miracle has to be paid for, it has a price, a price that must be evaluated, put a price on the price.
- After having left the tribe as a child through the violence of war.
- I only found it again thanks to anthropological research.
- After several events, the war, the regroupings, the deaths around 300 out of a population of around 2,000 inhabitants, the imprisonments, the burning of the hamlets, the occupation of the village by the army, the exodus.
- Then came national independence in 1962.
- Its share of hopes and its procession of disappointments.
- In this dizzying transformation of ways of life, of thought, could one claim a return to familiar places.
- This six year old child knew of the tribe only the two maternal and paternal families who embodied, on a local scale, the national turmoil.
- Everything else is discovered, a reconstruction of the facts after investigation.
- The village where I was born comes from a so called religious lineage, in the sense that it seems even more conservative than the surrounding villages.
- The inhabitants claim to be descended from a common ancestor.
- Like all holy groups, it is characterized by a distinctive feature.
- Women are in principle kept away from the outside life of the village.
- The higher the position of men in the social hierarchy.
- The more women are confined to the world of domesticity.
- Only the dominant groups observe the so called maraboutic attitudes.
- This is a small minority those whose function is to manage the sacred and those who manage political power.
Tassadit Yacine commented on her book
[edit]In her book, Tassadit Yacine noted
- If you love me.
- which ignore men as social agents and apprehend them as individuals, achieving the miraculous accord between demanding nature and desired culture.
- Fundamentally linked to the male sex, a generator of both desire and social disorder.
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