الإتنولوجيا في الجزائر المستعمرة معرفة علمية أم انشغال إيديولوجي

Abstract EN

The Colonizer enlisted important cultural and knowledge resources with the aim of deepening colonialism and destroying all attempts of resistance and defense mechanisms of Algerian society.

In this context, this colonialism was based on the branches of social knowledge that were prevalent at the time.

After this colonialism relied in the first stage on military ethnography, especially with Arab offices, it relies on academic ethnology that will seek the help of a human composition of civilian university students to produce knowledge about the Algerian social structure, serving a colonial agenda.

What are the general features of this " knowledge" branch known to colonial Algeria? It seems that the most important feature of this academic ethnology is its close connection with the colonial project, under the cover of scientific saturation, through a set of techniques that expressed the scientific endeavor, especially with the field observation by participation that this ethnology resorted to.

But the main objectives that all these field studies aspired to, based on the type of observation we presented, were not mainly the actual objective interpretation of the phenomena under study, but rather to present a degraded image as possible about the Algerians, .

as was evident in some of the topics that this technology was concerned with, such as women's issues, housing and religion.