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

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. 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 ethnography is composed as an intricate, open-ended, and arabesque-like evocation of Moroccan society and its state institutions. It equally challenges received sociological and anthropological tropes and understandings of the Arab world

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Alterations
Release date:	February 2002
First published:	March 2002
Authors:	Jamila Bargach
Dimensions:	230 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	310
ISBN-13:	978-0-7425-0027-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Islamic studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Children
LSN:	0-7425-0027-6
Barcode:	9780742500273

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