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Orphans of Islam

Family, Abandonment, and Secret Adoption in Morocco
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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.

Author Biography:

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.
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February 26th, 2002
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  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
310
Dimensions
152x230x24
ISBN-13
9780742500273
Product ID
5323195

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