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Orphans of Islam: Family, Abandonment, and Secret Adoption in Morocco(Alterations)


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This is a study, presented in a lyrical style, of the bastard body in contemporary Morocco. Abandoned, illegitimate, street and natural children are the epitome of abject marginality and exclusion, and this book, through an historically grounded reading of legal, social and cultural mechanisms in place, studies how this bastard body is generated. There is also an analysis of the concept of adoption and a discussion of a variety of adoptive practices. Written in part from the perspectives of the children and single mothers, intermittently from the view of adopting families, and employing bastardy as a haunting and empowering motif with a potentially subversive edge, this book then engages in a complex, open-ended, arabesque-like evocation of Moroccan society. This book challenges received sociological and anthropological tropes concerning the Arab world and questions dogmatic and conformist interpretations of Islam by Muslim and non-Muslim scholars.

Table of Contents:

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



About the Author :
Jamila Bargach received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Rice University. Currently she is residing in Morocco where she is an assistant professor in Anthropology and Sociology at the National School of Architecture.

Review :
This is a fine example of how meticulous ethnography of extraordinary power is 'found' in the course of fieldwork that is both rigorous and guided by profound personal connection. Bargach has caught Moroccan society in a revealing contradiction and produces an account from it that is both ethical and honorable. Orphans of Islam succeeds as a combination rich ethnography and sophisticated theoretical analysis. Bargach does an exceptional job of capturing and translating the eloquence of her interlocutors. ...a book that demonstrates the merits of writing anthropology that attends to the local and the global, the textual and embodied, and the ascetics and politics of ethnographic representation. [Bargach's] book is a vital pioneering foundation that could continue to affect social change. I hope that she will continue and others will build and apply this information, bringing society to a higher level and these victims of society closer to social justice and to the basic human dignity of belonging and connection that every person deserves. Through incisive analysis, disciplined passion, and moving prose, Jamila Bargach exposes in this book some of the hidden ambiguities of culture, religion, and power in her own society to the light of thoughtful compassion and humanizing possibilities of redress. This is a truly courageous and inspiring book, confronting silent conspiracies of shame and victimization of innocence with the transforming power of love and truth to enable human agency to overcome its own limitations. An eye opener to see injustice where least acknowledged, and an empowering voice for the oppressed everywhere.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780742500273
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 310
  • Series Title: Alterations
  • Sub Title: Family, Abandonment, and Secret Adoption in Morocco
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0742500276
  • Publisher Date: 26 Feb 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 467 gr


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