Orphans of Islam - Family, Abandonment, and Secret Adoption in Morocco

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.

List 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

Product details

• Authors: Jamila Bargach, Bargach Jamila
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2002
• EAN: 9780742500273
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-0027-3
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Alterations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Morocco, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Islamic Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Age groups: children, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities