Published: 2021-12-15

FRENCH ETHNOLOGISTS AND FRENCH ALGERIA. MORAL, POLITICAL AND SUBSTANCE CHOICES IN A COLONIAL SITUATION

Ryszard Vorbrich
Etnografia Polska
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/EP65.2021.2635

Abstract

The concept of ‘French Algeria’ appeared in the political and scientific discourse in the mid-twentieth century as a negation of attempts to undermine French domination in this country. This study examines the attitudes of French ethnologists in a conflict that broke out in the mid-twentieth century in the formally integral part of the French Republic. The analysis refers to such theoretical concepts as the “colonial situation” (G. Balandier) and the original concept of the “research situation”, under which one can distinguish such variables as: conditions (political, social, etc.) in which the anthropologist meets with the subject of his research (exterium of the research situation) and the professional formation of an ethnologist and his life experience (interium of the research situation). The analysis is illustrated by three profiles of French ethnologists confronted with the so-called The “Algerian War”: Servier, Tillion and Soustelle.

Keywords:

ethnology, France, Algeria, colonial context

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Vorbrich, R. (2021). FRENCH ETHNOLOGISTS AND FRENCH ALGERIA. MORAL, POLITICAL AND SUBSTANCE CHOICES IN A COLONIAL SITUATION. Etnografia Polska, 65. https://doi.org/10.23858/EP65.2021.2635

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