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Spirit Children

- Illness, Poverty, and Infanticide in Northern Ghana

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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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780299311209
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 216
  • Udgivet:
  • 30. maj 2017
  • Størrelse:
  • 152x229x18 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 460 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 11. december 2024
Forlænget returret til d. 31. januar 2025

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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.

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