Germaine Tillion
Germaine Tillion | |
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| Born | May 30, 1907 |
| Occupation | Anthropologist |
Germaine Tillion (born May 30, 1907) is a French anthropologist, best known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the French government.
Tillion was born in Allègre in Haute-Loire. Studying anthropology under Marcel Mauss, she lived in Algeria on various occasions between between 1934 and 1940, studying the Berber and Chaoui people in the Aures region of northeastern Algeria. During World War II, Tillion participated in the French Resistance. Captured, she was sent to the German concentration camp at Ravensbrück in 1942. After the War, she completed her doctorate under Louis Massignon.
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, she served as a liaison between the National Liberation Front leader Saadi Yacef and the French government, and helped arranged 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 is currently Honorary Director at France's School of High Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS).
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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