Spirit Children

Spirit Children
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Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
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ISBN-10 : 0299311244
ISBN-13 : 9780299311247
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Book Synopsis Spirit Children by : Aaron R. Denham

Download or read book Spirit Children written by Aaron R. Denham and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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