Tasadit Yassin, an anthropologist, was elected to the Ambrosiana Academy.
Tassadit Yassine was born on November 14, 1949 in Boujelil, Bejaia Province. Her mother was a housewife and her father was an immigrant who was tortured and executed in 1956. She completed her primary, secondary and higher education in Algeria, where she also worked before leaving for France in 1987.
Tasadet Yassin was the director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences. She is also a member of the Department of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France. She is the editor-in-chief of Al-Kalima - a magazine founded in 1985 in Paris with the Algerian anthropologist Mouloud Mammeri and the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to explore Amazigh life. She obtained her doctorate from the Sorbonne University, and her first degree was in the Spanish language at the University of Algiers, which she obtained in 1980.
Tassadit has written extensively on Amazigh anthropology and her approach to social anthropology combines scientific evaluation and oral literature. She is an expert on Bourdieu's work, placing his experiences in Algeria as a central influence on his philosophy. She edited the diaries of John Amrouche, allowing a greater understanding of his influence on literature. She led the symposium that followed the death of Rabah Belamri, which reconsidered his role in the literary culture of the Maghreb, and also praised him and his role. She edited a collection of Bourdieu's writings, placing Tassadit's work in its Algerian political contexts.
Anthropologist and researcher Tase prestdit Yasin-Titu, in Kabyle, became a member of the prestigious Accademia Ambrosiana di Milan (African Studi Class), during the Academy's death on February 10, 2023. Boujlil, in the Fajit section of Kabili, was a collaborator with the great Kabylie writer Mouloud Maamri
The undisputed expert in Amazigh culture, Tassadit Yacine, officially incorporated this Friday, February 10th, into the Ambrosiana di Milan Academy (Studi African Class). This nomination is in recognition of his academic work of great academic rigor and high-quality research. Currently, Tasadit Yassine is Director of Studies at École hautes études des socials (EHESS) and a researcher at the Social Anthropology Laboratory at CRNS and the College of France. She has presented several seminars, among others, in Orientale (Naples), at CRASC in Oran (Algeria) and at the University of Bejaia (Kabylie). She is also editor of the memoirs Mediterranean (Barcelona), Morocco Horizon (Toulouse) and Insaniyat magazine (Oran). In 1985, Tasaadit Yassine founded the Journal of Amazigh Studies, or prominent author, Mouloud Mammeri, a Kabylie writer and researcher involved in the defense of Amazigh culture. She was closely interested in the philosophical approach and critical reading of Islam of Muhammad Arkoun, her thesis director. During this event, the tribal anthropologist led a lecture on the topic “Femininity, modes of resistance and subjectivity in the tribal world (20th century)”.
?What is Ambrosiana Academy
This Italian academy comes from the Fineranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. It was founded by Cardinal Federico Borromeo on September 7, 1607 and opened on December 8, 1609. It was one of the first libraries to open
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