Fanny Colonna Explained

Birth Date:	1934
Birth Place:	El Milia
Nationality:	French-Algerian
Discipline:	sociologist, anthropologist
Workplaces:	Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou

Fanny Colonna (1934 - 18 November 2014) was a French-Algerian sociologist and anthropologist. She was also a former professor at Tizi Ouzou University.^[1]

Biography

Colonna was born in El Milia, and was the daughter of a French civil servant "who made sure she learned Arabic."^[2] Colonna lived in Algeria until 1993. She "established her reputation with a study of the Algerian schoolteacher class during the colonial period."^[3] Colonna also conducted an ethnographic study in the Aures between 1970 and 1980.^[4]

Selected works

• Book: Instituteurs algériens. Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques. 1975. 9782724603330. Paris.
• Book: Timimoun, une civilisation citadine. Entreprise algérienne de presse. 1989. Alger. 21520363.
• Book: Aurès, Algérie 1954 : les fruits verts d'une révolution. Ed. Autrement. 1994. 9782862605012. Paris.
• Book: Les versets de l'invincibilité : permanence et changements religieux dans l'Algérie contemporaine. Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques. 1995. 9782724606751. Paris.
• Book: Récits de la province égyptienne : une ethnographie sud-sud. Sindbad. 2003. 9782742743605. Paris.

Notes and References

1. News: Disparition de la sociologue et anthropologue Fanny Colonna, une passionnée des Aurès. 20 November 2014. Huffington Post. French. 25 February 2016.
2. Burke. Edmund III. 2015-05-01. FANNY COLONNA (1934–2014). International Journal of Middle East Studies. 47. 2. 417–419. 10.1017/S002074381500032X. 1471-6380. free.
3. Book: Gellner , Ernest . Culture, Identity, and Politics. registration. 29. fanny colonna.. Cambridge University Press. 1987. 9780521336673.
4. Web site: Fanny Colonna. L'Iris. French. 25 February 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161104075619/http://iris.ehess.fr/index.php?396. 4 November 2016. dead.