Tassadit Yacine

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..mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:#f9f9f9}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}

Yacine's doctoral thesis was entitled Productions culturelles et agents de production en kabylie: anthropologie de la culture dans les groupes kabyles 16e-20e siecle, which she was awarded a PhD for in 1992 from Paris-Sorbonne University. Her first degree was in Spanish at the University of Algiers; she graduated for it in 1980.

Yacine is Director of Study at l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and is also a member of the department of social anthropology at the Collège de France. She directs Awal ("The word") - a journal founded in 1985 in Paris with the Algerian anthropologist Mouloud Mammeri and the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to explore Berber life.

Tassadit Yacine-Titouh (14 November 1949 - Boudjellil, Algeria) is an Algerian anthropologist specialising in Berber culture.

Yacine was born on 14 November 1949, in Boudjellil, in the wilaya Bejaia. Her mother was a housewife and her father an immigrant who was tortured and executed in 1956. She completed her primary, secondary and higher studies in Algeria, where she also worked before leaving for France in 1987.