Fanny Colonna (1934 - November 18, 2014) was a French-Algerian sociologist and anthropologist. She was also a former professor at Tizi Ouzou University.

Biography

Colonna was born in El Milia, and was the daughter of a French civil servant "who made sure she learned

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until 1993. She "established her reputation with a study of the Algerian schoolteacher class during the colonial period." Colonna also conducted an

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study in the Aures between 1970 and 1980.

Selected works

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References

1934 births 2014 deaths French anthropologists Algerian anthropologists French women anthropologists Algerian women anthropologists Algerian sociologists Algerian women sociologists 21st-century Algerian people {{Algeria-scientist-stub