| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 290 pages) |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-283) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Adoption -- Morocco
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Illegitimacy -- Morocco
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Illegitimate children -- Morocco
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Abandoned children -- Morocco
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Adoption -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Abandoned children
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Adoption
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Adoption -- Religious aspects -- Islam
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Illegitimacy
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Illegitimate children
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Adoption
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Nichteheliches Kind
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Adoptie.
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Vondelingen.
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Buitenechtelijke kinderen.
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Morocco
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Marokko
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781461640431 |
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1461640431 |
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1299795145 |
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9781299795143 |
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