page_title: Tassadit Yacine
section_title: Research
hierarchical_section_title: Tassadit Yacine / Research
caption_attribution_description: Maghreb des Livres, 7 et 8 février 2015
context_page_description: Tassadit Yacine-Titouh is an Algerian anthropologist specialising in Berber culture.
context_section_description: Yacine has written widely on Berber anthropology Her approach to social anthropology combines scientific assessment with oral literature. She is an expert on the work of Bourdieu, placing his experiences in Algeria as a central influence on his philosophy. She edited the diaries of Jean Amrouche, enabling greater understanding of his influence on literature. She led the colloquium following the death of Rabah Belamri, which re-examined, as well as playing tribute to, his role in literary culture in the Maghreb. She edited a collection of Bourdieu's writings, where Yacine placed his work in its Algerian political contexts.
  
  She is an expert on the life of Berber peoples and has published and spoken widely on the subject, especially how Arabic culture and language has eroded Amazigh identities over the course of the twentieth century. Yacine has studied kabyle language and Berber literary cultures in particular. She is also an authority on how gender intersects with the erosion of cultural identities in Amazigh culture, using a Freudian framework for cultural analysis. This work was built on in a subsequent thesis by Terhi Lehtinen. Two of her most significant academic works are seen to be: Chacal ou la ruse des dominés (2001) and Si tu m'aimes, guéris-moi (2006). In the latter book, Yacine places Berber culture in its wider Mediterranean context, as well as transcending the traditional distinction between oral and written cultures.
caption: Tassadit Yacine (21e Maghreb des Livres, Paris, 7 et 8 février 2015)
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