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By Jamila Bargach

ISBN-10: 0742500268

ISBN-13: 9780742500266

ISBN-10: 0742500276

ISBN-13: 9780742500273

Orphans of Islam portrays the abject lives and 'excluded physique' of deserted and bastard kids in modern Morocco, whereas critiquing the concept that and perform of 'adoption,' which too usually is taken into account a panacea. via an in depth and traditionally grounded analyzing of felony, social, and cultural mechanisms of 1 predominantly Islamic kingdom, Jamila Bargach indicates how 'the surplus bastard physique' is created via mainstream society. Written partly from the views of the kids and unmarried moms, intermittently from the view of 'adopting' households, and using bastardy as a haunting and empowering motif with a most likely subversive part, this ethnography consists as an difficult, open-ended, and arabesque-like evocation of Moroccan society and its kingdom associations. It both demanding situations obtained sociological and anthropological tropes and understandings of the Arab world.

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