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Spirit Children - Illness, Poverty, and Infanticide in Northern Ghana (Hardcover)
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Spirit Children - Illness, Poverty, and Infanticide in Northern Ghana (Hardcover)
Series: Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
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In parts of West Africa, some babies and toddlers are considered
spirit children-nonhumans sent from the forest to cause misfortune
and destroy the family. These are usually deformed or ailing
infants, the very young whose births coincide with tragic events,
or children who display unusual abilities. In some of these cases,
families seek a solution in infanticide. Many others do not.
Refusing to generalize or oversimplify, Aaron R. Denham offers an
ethnographic study of the spirit child phenomenon in Northern Ghana
that considers medical, economic, religious, and political
realities. He examines both the motivations of the families and the
structural factors that lead to infanticide, framing these within
the context of global public health. At the same time, he turns the
lens on Western societies and the misunderstandings that prevail in
discourse about this controversial practice. Engaging the
complexity of the context, local meanings, and moral worlds of
those confronting a spirit child, Denham offers visceral accounts
of families' life and death decisions.
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