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

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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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
310
ISBN-13:
9780742500273
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0742500276
Udg. Dato:
26 feb 2002
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
Rowman & Littlefield
Oplagsdato:
26 feb 2002
Forfatter(e):
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