Caratini, Sophie, 1948-

found: Her Les Rgaybāt (1610-1934), c1989- :v. 1, t.p. (Sophie Caratini) p. 4 of cover (b. 1948 in Paris, France)

found: Sahara, mondes connectés, 2019:page 6 (Sophie Caratini, anthropologue, directrice de recherche émérite au CNRS, Laboratoire CITERES (CNRS-Université de Tours))

found: Wikipedia, French version, June 26, 2019(Sophie Caratini; very early had a taste for literature, studied literature before ethnology; did her first fieldwork in 1974 in extreme northern Mauritania with the nomadic Rgaybat (Reguibat) camel herders; thesis defended 1985, on Arab marriage which attracted the interest of Claude Lévi-Strauss; she directed the ethnology department at the Institut du monde arabe, Paris, 1983-1991; she joined CNRS in 1993, and undertook a research program on French-Mauritanian relations which lasted for almost 20 years, during which she again did fieldwork in Mauritania and in the Sahrawi refugee camps; her goal was to put together, in a "colonial trilogy," three stories to describe the impact on people, societies and cultures (French, Maure [Arabo-Berber], Fula); her colonial triptych was published as La Fille du chasseur (2011), Les Sept cercles, une odyssée noire (2015), and Antinéa mon amour (2017))