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Spirit Children: Illness, Poverty, and Infanticide in Northern Ghana

Contributor(s): Denham, Aaron R (Author)

ISBN: 9780299311247

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

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Pub Date: July 23, 2019

Dewey: 364.15230830

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Illustrated

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.50" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 0.71 lbs) 216 pages

Series: Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture

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Description: An ethnographic study of the spirit children phenomenon in Northern Ghana that considers medical, economic, religious, and political realities, along with providing vivid accounts of families' life and death decisions.

Review Quotes: "The work that Denham has carried out and disseminates in this finely written and sensitive book is absolutely ground-breaking."--Ethos

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