Spirit Children Illness Poverty and Infanticide by Aaron R. Denham PAPERBACK

Spirit Children Illness Poverty and Infanticide in Northern Ghana\nby Aaron R. Denham\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Aaron R. Denham\nTitle: Spirit Children Illness Poverty and Infanticide in Northern Ghana\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Ethnic studies\nPublisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9780299311247\nISBN-10: 0299311244\nRRP: \u00A319.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nSome babies and toddlers in parts of West Africa are considered spirit children - non-humans sent from the forest to cause misfortune and destroy the family. Aaron 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.\n\nSome babies and tod.