Orphans of Islam Family, Abandonment, and

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.

Note on Transliteration and Transcription

xi

Preface and Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction(s): Object/Subject, Argument

1

(22)

Part I Defining Moves: From Text to Script and from Script to Text

Legal Throes: Genealogies and Debates on Kafala, Adoption, and Abandoned Children

23

(22)

Counterpoints: The Idiom of Adoption between Theological Interpretation, the Rise of the Nation-State and the `Real'

45

(30)

Part II Rootless Lives and Bloodless Ties: Bastards, Secret Adoptions, and Some Other Cultural Dialectics

Of Anthropology: Nature, Nurture, and Kinship

75

(28)

Of Rituals: Names, Affiliation, and Identity

103

(20)

Of Culture: Loci, Lore, and Sterotypes

123

(30)

Part III Nothing above Family: To Reflect on Marginality

News from the Art, Intellectual, and Media Fronts: Reflections on and Representations of Marginality

153

(22)

Social Work at Work: Or What Politics for What Help?

175

(18)

Civil Society and Social Work: Or the Politics of What Help?

193

(22)

Postface

215

(4)

Notes

219

(66)

Index

285

(6)

About the Author

291

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

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