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*Adams, Geoffrey (1998). ''The Call of Conscience: French Protestant Responses to the Algeria War, 1954-62''. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. |
*Adams, Geoffrey (1998). ''The Call of Conscience: French Protestant Responses to the Algeria War, 1954-62''. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. |
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*Aussaresses, General Paul. ''The Battle of the Casbah: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Algeria, 1955-1957''. (New York: Enigma Books, 2010) ISBN 978-1-929631-30-8. |
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*Charrad, Mounira (2001). ''States and Women's Rights''. Berkeley: [[University of California Press]]. |
*Charrad, Mounira (2001). ''States and Women's Rights''. Berkeley: [[University of California Press]]. |
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*[[Alistair Horne|Horne, Alistair]] (1978). ''A Savage War of Peace''. New York: Viking. |
*[[Alistair Horne|Horne, Alistair]] (1978). ''A Savage War of Peace''. New York: Viking. |
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Germaine Tillion | |
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| Born | May 30, 1907 |
| Died | April 18, 2008 (aged 100) |
| Occupation | Anthropologist |
Germaine Tillion born in Allègre in Haute-Loire on May 30, 1907 – April 18, 2008) was a French anthropologist, best known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the French government.
Biography
Studying social anthropology with Marcel Mauss and Louis Massignon. Licenciée en lettres, she receives a degree from the École pratique des hautes études, the École du Louvre, and the INALCO. She did four fieldwork in Algeria between 1934 and 1940, studying the Berber and Chaoui people in the Aures region of northeastern Algeria, to prepare for her doctorate in Anthropology.
As she came back to Paris from the field, France was defeated and, Germaine Tillion turned into one of the leading commander in the French Resistance in the network of the Musee de l'Homme in Paris. Her missions include helping prisoners to escape and organize intelligence for the allied forces from 1940 to 1943. Betrayed by a priest, she was captured and sent to the German concentration camp of Ravensbrück, near Berlin with her mother, Émilie Tillion, also a resistante. From her arrival the 21 October 1943 to the end of the camp in Spring 1945, she wrote an Operetta, called "Le Verfügbar aux Enfers", a comedy describing the poor life of the "Verfügbar" in the world of the camp, to help the other survivors to have fun, doing in the same time a precise ethnographic analysis of the concentration camp.
Algerian war
In the 1950s, during the Algerian War of Independence, Tillion served as an adviser to the French government in Algeria on its social policies, helping the government to set up 'Social Centres'. During this period, at the time of the battle of Algiers and through FLN Political advisor Hadj Smaine Mohamed El Hadi (Whom later became Minister of Justice in the Algerian Government and life long friend), she served as a liaison between the National Liberation Front leader Saadi Yacef and the French government, and helped arrange several cease-fires. Tillion was among the first to denounce the use of torture by French forces in the war.
In 1977 Germaine Tillion was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca and holds France's Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur. She was Honorary Director at France's School of High Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) at the time of her death.
Honours
- Grand-croix de la Légion d'honneur (Only five women were awarded Grand Cross of the Légion of Honor) .
- Grand-Croix de l'Ordre national du Mérite
- Croix de guerre 1939-1945
- Médaille de la Résistance
- Médaille de la déportation et de l'internement pour faits de Résistance
- Grand Cross of the German Merit, (2004)
Bibliography
- L’Algérie aurésienne (in French). a collaboration with Nancy Woods. 2001. ISBN 2-7324-2769-1.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - Il était une fois l’ethnographie. Biographie (in French). 2000. ISBN 2-02-025702-5.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - Les ennemis complémentaires (in French). 1960.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - Ravensbrück (in French). 1958.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - Le harem et les cousins (in French). 1966.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - L’Algérie en 1957 (in French). 1956.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - L'Afrique bascule vers l'avenir (in French). 1959.
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References
- Adams, Geoffrey (1998). The Call of Conscience: French Protestant Responses to the Algeria War, 1954-62. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
- Aussaresses, General Paul. The Battle of the Casbah: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Algeria, 1955-1957. (New York: Enigma Books, 2010) ISBN 978-1-929631-30-8.
- Charrad, Mounira (2001). States and Women's Rights. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Horne, Alistair (1978). A Savage War of Peace. New York: Viking.
- Kahler, Eric (1957). The Tower and the Abyss: An Inquiry into the Transformation of the Individual. New York: Braziller.
- Kraft, Joseph (1958). "In North Africa Peace Alone Will Not Be Enough." New York Times. July 6.
- Michalczyk, John (1998). Resisters, Rescuers, and Refugees. Kansas City: Sheed and Ward.
Further reading
General Paul Aussaresses, The Battle of the Casbah: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Algeria, 1955-1957. (New York: Enigma Books, 2010) ISBN 978-1-929631-30-8.