Tassadit Yacine

"Researchers spend a large part of their time objectifying others without ever questioning their own objectification."

"For how can one objectify others if one does not attempt to objectify one's own history, one's own subjectivity."

"Anthropology must therefore go beyond the divide between objectivism and subjectivism."

"Just as it must also go beyond the determinism of structures."

"Structures exist, of course; they are structured and structuring, of course, but they cannot make explicit all the behaviors and attitudes of social agents."

"Social agents cannot be a pure product of a single structural determinism without taking into account historical and political contingencies, emotions, and free will."

"Being precisely subject and object, this return to reflexivity has opened up avenues for me to understand a generation of men and women with similar dispositions."

"Who have managed to achieve important positions in the scientific, cultural."

"They are said to be "miracle survivors, but the sociological miracle has a history, a social and political genesis that must be re-examined."

"The miracle has to be paid for, it has a price, a price that must be evaluated, put a price on the price."

"After having left the tribe as a child through the violence of war."

"I only found it again thanks to anthropological research."

"After several events, the war, the regroupings, the deaths around 300 out of a population of around 2,000 inhabitants, the imprisonments, the burning of the hamlets, the occupation of the village by the army, the exodus."

"Then came national independence in 1962."

"Its share of hopes and its procession of disappointments."

"In this dizzying transformation of ways of life, of thought, could one claim a return to familiar places."

"This six year old child knew of the tribe only the two maternal and paternal families who embodied, on a local scale, the national turmoil."

"Everything else is discovered, a reconstruction of the facts after investigation."

"The village where I was born comes from a so called religious lineage, in the sense that it seems even more conservative than the surrounding villages."

"The inhabitants claim to be descended from a common ancestor."

"Like all holy groups, it is characterized by a distinctive feature."

"Women are in principle kept away from the outside life of the village."

"The higher the position of men in the social hierarchy."

"The more women are confined to the world of domesticity."

"Only the dominant groups observe the so called maraboutic attitudes."

"This is a small minority those whose function is to manage the sacred and those who manage political power."

"If you love me."

"which ignore men as social agents and apprehend them as individuals, achieving the miraculous accord between demanding nature and desired culture."

"Fundamentally linked to the male sex, a generator of both desire and social disorder."