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  • Encountering Morocco

    Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding

    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse stages of their careers–from the unmarried researcher arriving for her first stint in the field to the seasoned fieldworker returning with spouse and children. They offer frank descriptions of what it ... Leer más

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  • The Ethics of Kinship

    Ethnographic Inquiries

    Series series Alterations
    What need is there for kinship? What good is it anyway? The questions are as old as anthropology itself, but few answers have been enduringly persuasive. Kinship systems can contribute to our enslavement, but more often they permit, channel, and facilitate our relations with others and our further fashioning of ourselves-as kin but also as subjects of other kinds. When they do, they are among the ... Leer más

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  • Orphans of Islam

    Family, Abandonment, and Secret Adoption in Morocco

    Series series Alterations
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Outside in the Teaching Machine

    Series series Routledge Classics
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  • Learning in Morocco

    Language Politics and the Abandoned Educational Dream

    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Learning in Morocco offers a rare look inside public education in the Middle East. While policymakers see a crisis in education based on demographics and financing, Moroccan high school students point to the effects of a highly politicized Arabization policy that has never been implemented coherently. In recent years, national policies to promote the use of Arabic have come into conflict with the ... Leer más

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  • Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures

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    A must-read for anyone interested in Muslim cultures, this volume not only explores Muslim identities through the lens of sexuality and gender - their historical and contemporary transformations and local and global articulations - but also interrogates our understanding of what constitutes a ’Muslim’ identity in selected Muslim-majority countries at this pivotal historical moment, characterized ... Leer más

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  • The Selected Works of Edward W. Said, 1966 - 2006

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  • The Limits of Whiteness

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