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1 online resource (xvii, 290 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-283) and index. |
Contents |
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? |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Adoption -- Morocco.
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Adoption. |
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Morocco. |
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Illegitimacy -- Morocco.
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Illegitimacy. |
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Illegitimate children -- Morocco.
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Illegitimate children. |
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Abandoned children -- Morocco.
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Abandoned children. |
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Adoption -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Adoption -- Religious aspects -- Islam. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Bargach, Jamila, 1964- Orphans of Islam. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2002 0742500268 (DLC) 2001031989 (OCoLC)46969867 |
ISBN |
9781461640431 (electronic book) |
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1461640431 (electronic book) |
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1299795145 (e-book) |
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9781299795143 (e-book) |
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0742500268 |
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9780742500266 |
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0742500276 |
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9780742500273 |
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