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Spirit Children - Illness, Poverty, and Infanticide in Northern Ghana (Paperback)
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Spirit Children - Illness, Poverty, and Infanticide in Northern Ghana (Paperback)
Series: Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
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Some babies and toddlers in parts of West Africa are considered
spirit children-nonhumans sent from the forest to cause misfortune
and destroy the family. These are usually deformed or ailing
infants, or children whose births coincide with tragic events or
who display unusual abilities. Aaron R. Denham offers a nuanced
ethnographic study of this phenomenon in Northern Ghana that
examines both the motivations of the families and the structural
factors that lead to infanticide. He also turns the lens on the
prevailing misunderstandings about this controversial practice.
Denham offers vivid accounts of families' life-and-death decisions
that engage the complexity of the context, local meanings, and
moral worlds of those confronting a spirit child.
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