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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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction(s): Object/Subject, Discipline/Argument
- Defining Moves: From Text to Script and from Script to Text
- Legal Throes: Genealogies and Debates on Kafala, Adoption, and Abandoned Children
- Counterpoints: The Idiom of Adoption between Theological Interpretation, the Rise of the Nation-State and the 'Real'
- Rootless Lives and Bloodless Ties: Bastards, Secret Adoptions, and Some Other Cultural Dialectics
- Of Anthropology: Nature, Nurture, and Kinship
- Of Rituals: Names, Affiliation, and Identity
- Of Culture: Loci, Lore, and Stereotypes
- Nothing above Family: To Reflect on Marginality
- News from the Art, Intellectual, and Media Fronts: Reflections on and Representations of Marginality
- Social Work at Work: Or What Politics for What Help?
- Civil Society and Social Work: Or the Politics of What Help?