Jamila Bargach

Orphans of Islam

Family, Abandonment, and Secret Adoption in Morocco

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780742500273
• ISBN-10: 0742500276
• Artikelnr.: 21977581

Autorenporträt

By Jamila Bargach

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Notes on Transliteration and Transcription Chapter 2 Preface and
Acknowledgements Part 3 Introduction(s): Object/Subject,
Discipline/Argument Part 4 I: Defining Moves: From Text to Script and From
Script to Text Chapter 5 1 Legal Throes: Genealogies and Debates of Kafala,
Adoption, and Abandoned Children Chapter 6 2 Counterpoints: The Idiom of
Adoption between Theological Interpretation, the Rise of the Nation-State
and the "Real" Part 7 II: Rootless Lives and Bloodless Ties: Bastards,
Secret Adoptions, and Some Other Cultural Dialectics Chapter 8 3 Of
Anthropology: Nature, Nurture, and Kinship Chapter 9 4 Of Rituals: Names,
Affiliation, and Identity Chapter 10 5 Of Culture: Loci, Lore, and
Stereotypes Part 11 III: Nothing Above Family: To Reflect on Marginality
Chapter 12 6 News From the Art, Intellectual and Media Fronts: Reflections
on and Representations of Marginality Chapter 13 7 Social Work at Work: Or
What Politics for What Help? Chapter 14 8 Civil Society and Social Work: Or
the Politics of What Help? (Continued) Part 15 Postface Chapter 16 Notes
Chapter 17 Index