The makeup of destiny: Predestination and the labor of hope in a Moroccan emigrant town

摘要: As young women in a Moroccan emigrant town search for suitable husbands, they frame seemingly irreverent practices such as using makeup and premarital romances ways to precipitate their unknown conjugal destinies. This complex “labor of hope” flows from the Islamic precept predestination, which, far being fatalistic backdrop social life, compels people act human world view future that has already been divinely determined. Here, destiny effectively “folds” Islam into very texture mundane that, on surface, may seem not just distant but even antithetical it. phenomenon obliges us recast Max Weber's argument predestination action, well reconsider current anthropological debates “everyday Islam.” [destiny, migration, hope, courtship, future, Islam, Morocco]