Abstract EN:

This thesis seeks to investigate a suggested framework for daily life in Tunisia, with special reference to the Sfax region as a propitious case study. This anthropological study is situated within the selected framework as well as the analytic toolkit that draws on my M. A. Thesis entitled "Structure, space and daily-life in Tunisia at the pre-colonial and colonial era : the Sfax region as a case study". However, it must be noted at this stage that we have deemed it necessary to develop this question by taking into consideration the complexity of the "Bùrj phenomenon". Consequently, this term is to be developed on the architectural (i. E. At the level of the structural organisations of the abode), family (i. E. The forms of social interaction inside the bùrj) and cultural (i. E. Rituals, symbols & social heritage) planes. Thus, our aim is to study Sfaxian bùrj as a residential space used by the Sfaxian population at a precise period ranging from the 17th to the 20th centuries. To this effect, this fortified structure represents the distinctive particularity of Sfax compared to the other Tunisian cities ; hence, our decision to single it out as a corpus for our socio-anthropological analysis. The importance of the Sfaxian residential space stems from its capacity to unravel the relationship between a population and the space that it occupies. Similarly, to identify the specificities of a social frame, it is essential to review the traditional habitat because it translates the system of values that governs the relations between the different family members. Moreover, this suggested framework has the potential of being significant thanks to its socio-cultural suggestions.