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Orphans of Islam : family, abandonment, and secret adoption in Morocco / Jamila Bargach.
Orphans of Islam portrays the abject lives and 'excluded body' of abandoned and bastard children in contemporary Morocco, while critiquing the concept and practice of 'adoption, ' which too often is considered a panacea. Through a close and historically grounded reading of legal, social, and cultural mechanisms of one predominantly Islamic country, Jamila Bargach shows how 'the surplus bastard body' is created by mainstream society.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781461640431
- ISBN: 1461640431
- ISBN: 1299795145
- ISBN: 9781299795143
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 290 pages)
- Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2002.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-283) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction(s): Object/Subject, Discipline/Argument -- Defining Moves: From Text to Script and from Script to Text -- Legal Throes: Genealogies and Debates on Kafala, Adoption, and Abandoned Children -- Counterpoints: The Idiom of Adoption between Theological Interpretation, the Rise of the Nation-State and the 'Real' -- Rootless Lives and Bloodless Ties: Bastards, Secret Adoptions, and Some Other Cultural Dialectics -- Of Anthropology: Nature, Nurture, and Kinship -- Of Rituals: Names, Affiliation, and Identity -- Of Culture: Loci, Lore, and Stereotypes -- Nothing above Family: To Reflect on Marginality -- News from the Art, Intellectual, and Media Fronts: Reflections on and Representations of Marginality -- Social Work at Work: Or What Politics for What Help? -- Civil Society and Social Work: Or the Politics of What Help? |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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