Germaine Tillion: Il Etait Une Fois L’ethnographie – Lu

Germaine Tillion is a French ethnologist, best known for her work in Algeria and for setting education programs for French prisoners. As a professor of the Ecole des hautes Etudes en sciences sociales she undertook 20 scientific missions in North Africa and the Middle East. She was a member of the French resistance, she spent time in the RavensbrUck concentration camp. When Germaine Tillion wrote “Il Etait une fois l’ethnographie”, she was in the twilight of her life; she wanted to go back over her notes and work carried out with the Berber population of the AurEs in Algeria, between 1934 and 1940. Here she recounts her experience as a young ethnologist with humor and a unique sense of narrative. MP3 Audiobook in French.