Germaine Tillion: Difference between revisions

Tillion spent her youth with her family in [[Clermont-Ferrand]]. She left for [[Paris]] to study [[social anthropology]] with [[Marcel Mauss]] and [[Louis Massignon]], obtaining degrees from the [[École pratique des hautes études]], the [[École du Louvre]], and the [[INALCO]]. Four times between 1934 and 1940 she did [[fieldwork]] in [[Algeria]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Reid|first=Donald|title=Germaine Tillion, Lucie Aubrac, and the Politics of Memories of the French Resistance|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|year=2009|isbn=978-1-84718-144-2|location=Newcastle upon Tyne|pages=14}}</ref> studying the [[Chaoui]] [[Berber people|Berber]] and [[Chaoui]] people in the [[Aures, Algeria|Aures]] region of northeastern Algeria, to prepare for her [[doctorate]] in [[anthropology]].