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Fanny Colonna
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“He had a very long life, more than a hundred years, and the memory he left in the north of the massif is a measure of this longevity.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think he wasn't unique and that over the years, we'll find lots of Baptistes in various regions of the country.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This local social history remains to be done, and that's kind of the point of this book.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Baptiste introduced milling to the Aurès, he built mills, he discovered an archaeological cave that bears his name.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His memory survives in the north of the massif but hardly any further.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I worked for twenty years in this region, mainly in the south, without ever hearing a local mountaineer spontaneously talk to me about him.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not talking here about the researchers, to the extreme modesty, the simplicity of the character, his self-effacing end.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is also talk of his son, Chérif, of whom we do not know for sure whether his mother is Chaouia or Italian.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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).”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Aurès is not at all what one imagines from the outside!”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Twenty years of age separated them and neither seems to have found any treasure.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think it was a beautiful and unexpected meeting, between two men fairly free from prejudice and capable of physical and moral prowess.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was already very old. So his support was, according to what I was told, clandestine.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With this book, somewhere between a portrait and a novel, you depart somewhat from the pure sociological approach to which you have accustomed us.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each book has its own style of writing, more or less spontaneous, depending on the subject, the sources, and the anticipated readers.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This one took as long to produce, even longer, given its relative thinness, than exclusively scientific research.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This last one seems to have broadened my audience, and I very much hope for a co-publication in Algeria..”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Although roots is not exactly the right term: as a European from Algeria who became Algerian,”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't have roots but attachments, loyalties, and loyalties.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a very special historical destiny, both received but above all chosen.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Aurès is the native country of my mother, whose family arrived in Chélia and then Khenchela, around 1875.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think that indeed, the Aurès has been for me since 1973.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I often went to spend holidays with my grandmother and my father also loved this region very much.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had the places, the toponyms, the people also in memory and in my imagination.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I began to work there, the local bibliography in French and English was of the order of a tenth of that on Kabylie and the delay is very far from being filled, while there is little work in Arabic elsewhere.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would add that the geography as well as the material manifestations of the culture are especially beautiful, and that many of my anthropologist colleagues envied me this choice, which was barely one.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's first and foremost a European name that resonates in the heights of the Aurès massif.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A miller of Italian origin who, having lived in the region, knows the massif better than anyone.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we hadn't known, we would never have guessed that he wasn't from around here.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I felt as though I knew nothing and was entirely self-taught when I began working on the subject.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had grown up in a village, Meskiana, and that rural life had deeply shaped me.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My father wanted me to learn Arabic, so I attended a Qur’anic school for a while during the holidays, before entering high school.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I saw how children were taught to think.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I experienced in my own body what the kuttāb was: the cross legged posture, the role of speech and recitation, the swaying of bodies, the love for the calligraphy of letters on the clay coated tablet.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My article on repetition (Colonna, 1980b) is precisely an analysis of these techniques used to shape thought.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I attended the reformist Médersa in my village, and there I clearly saw the difference with the Qur’anic school”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The teacher’s straight trousers and white shirt, the bench and blackboard, the students seated in rows, the discipline of bodies.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Both types of education left a mark on me the two bodily postures as well as the revelation of the gap that existed between them.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learned Islam has given rise to so many studies! By contrast, the anthropology of Islam as the daily practice of its actors has attracted almost no interest.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What fascinated me at the outset of this research was that there were no detailed studies of ordinary religious practice.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For a long time, the social sciences gave an image of the Maghreb as a society Islamized without Islam.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Religion was omnipresent, or it played no role at all in social construction.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the important works of Basset (1961) or Laoust (1920), for example, there is no section on religion.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gellner did indeed show that the "saints," that is, the religious lineages, had a dual function.”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source